Message-Id: <3.0.16.19971030165653.282fb74c@hem1.passagen.se>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:03:10 -0500
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
Subject: Re: slow startup on less (lss332b.zip)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 11.51 1997-10-30 +0200, you wrote:
>
>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.

Well, I can get a slow startup sometimes, but that probably depends on the
fact that the program which are to generate the output takes some time to
execute, since I suppose that program  is run completely before less
handles the output of it. Pipes don't work to well under DOS! :(
-- Peter Palotas alias Blizzar -- blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se --

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