Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:39:41 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: slow startup on less (lss332b.zip)
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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Peter Palotas wrote:

> 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! :(

The time to generate the emulated pipe should not be included in ``Less 
startup time'', since Less is not run until the pipe is closed by 
whatever writes it.