Message-Id: <200001252118.QAA10432@delorie.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:38:02 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Less v340 uploaded Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com This is to announce that the DJGPP port of version 340 of the GNU Less package is available from SimTel.NET mirrors worldwide: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/lss340b.zip ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/lss340s.zip Less is a text file browser and much more. In addition to features that you'd expect (paging up and down through the file, searching, marking places and jumping between them, viewing several files in a single session), it also provides many unusual extensions. Examples include file-name completion, ability to invoke arbitrary shell commands or pipe parts of the file to those commands, fully customizable key bindings, etc. The DJGPP version uses colors to designate bold, underlined, and inverse-video text. The changes since the previous version 332 are mostly bugfixes and a couple of new minor features; see the file NEWS for details. Some of the bugs that are now fixed are DJGPP-specific: Less no longer leaves the console in raw mode when invoking subsidiary programs, and does not truncate the value of the LESS environment variable when running subprograms. Horizontal scrolling now works correctly. The lessecho program is now part of the distribution. It is not really needed in the DJGPP environment, but since the original GNU package installs it unconditionally, I decided to include it in lss34b.zip. Less used to support DJGPP right out of the box, but this support has somewhat deteriorated lately, due to several changes that were made in DJGPP-specific parts but never reported to any DJGPP forum (AFAIK). So this port is slightly different from the official GNU release. Please direct any further discussions about this port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp news group (or write to its e-mail gateway djgpp AT delorie DOT com).