[sclug] less not cooperating

[ed]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:00:41 +0100
Will Dickson <wrd at glaurung.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm writing an application in a compiled language (java, if it
> matters). For reasons that are too boring to go into here, the app
> needs to print a large text file to the console such that the user
> can read through it. Since this particular piece of code knows that
> it's running in Linux, the obvious answer seemed to be, call out
> to /usr/bin/less and get it to do the work.
> 
> Well, it prints the thing, but unfortunately it prints it all at
> once, without the interactive page breaks. Which is no good :-( I
> suspect I'm missing some kind of shell-fu.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?

/usr/bin/less --window=24

might help, dunno, I've never used this, but I imagine that less is not
reading the terminal environment correctly since the JRE is executing
it.

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