Bug 10708

Summary:	less in xterm doesn't work
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Brian Highers <brianh>
Component:	less	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	thainm
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Description Brian Highers 2000-04-10 21:03:49 UTC

If i do a "less file" on xterm i get strange ANSI codes output, instead
of the proper output.
If i do "cat file | less" the output is correct.
Once on a big file i used <ctrl-C> before less finished to load the file
and the output seemed to be correct.
If i change the terminal to xterm-24, or vt100, or ansi i see the right
output.

--Tommaso

Comment 1 Anonymous 2000-04-12 15:28:59 UTC

This bug and bug 10397 are the same as bug 9443.

I observe in 6.2 and having defined TERM=vt100; export TERM, that less
<filename> only echoes the lines I added to /etc/bashrc and then displays END.

The command cat <filename> | less, however, does work.

Craig

Comment 2 Tommaso Schiavinotto 2000-04-18 06:48:59 UTC

Taking a RedHat 6.1 and upgrading only the 'less' package it works. The RH6.2
for which i reported the bug is a full installation.

Regarding the other comment less doesnt make you see only the lines you added,
but it lets you see old lines that passed on the xterm.

Comment 3 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-07-26 18:41:56 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9443 ***