[sclug] less not cooperating
Will Dickson
wrd at glaurung.demon.co.uk
Sat Jul 28 22:13:12 UTC 2007
Alex Butcher wrote:
> Would it be utterly dreadful to run 'xterm -e /usr/bin/less foo' ? That'll
> give it a proper terminal setup and is less work than re-writing more in
> Java.
Thanks, but that won't fly - this bit is a fallback for headless
(text-only) environments. If it's got X11 available, it just prints the
whole thing in a GUI dialog instead.
Will.
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