Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:51:51 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Darrel Hankerson <hankedr AT dms DOT auburn DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: slow startup on less (lss332b.zip)
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On 28 Oct 1997, Darrel Hankerson wrote:

> less (lss332b.zip) has a several-second startup time on Win95
> (486-66, 16meg).  There is no delay on Win-3.1 (Pentium-75).

Please tell more.  Exactly how did you call Less, and what is included
in your definition of ``startup time''?

I use Less a lot on DOS, Windows 3.X and Windows 95, and don't see any
such slow start on any of these systems.

> It appears that the addresses in the readme,
>  
>     This is the distribution of less, version 332, released 22 Apr 97
>     Please report any problems to the author at markn AT fog DOT net.
>         (Please note change of email address.)
>     See http://www.fog.net/markn/less for the latest info.
> 
> are no longer valid.  The file was obtained from the djgpp collection
> on simtel.net.

I could dig out the last address of Mark Nudelman that I used to write
to him, but it seems that this problem is DJGPP- or Windows-specific,
so it makes sense to try to understand what's going on before
reporting this as a bug to the author.