On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:02:38PM +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
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> On 27 Apr 2008 at 12:39, Luciano Rocha wrote:
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> Date sent:    Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:39:40 +0100
> From: Luciano Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject:      Re: Operation of more command
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> > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 08:25:16PM +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
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> > > I'm the current developer of g4l, and it has used busybox before I took 
> > > over, 
> > > and has been excellent. I have just noticed one issue involving the more 
> > > command. The g4l project is a bootcd for disk imaging, and doesn't make a 
> > > lot of use of the more command, but there are times when checking things 
> > > would make more a nice option, but both the busybox and even the one 
> > > from Fedora 8 seem to work just like cat. In looking at the code of the 
> > > more.c, it appear it acts like cat under some situations. It works fine 
> > > when 
> > > run under the Fedora environment, but from the cd, it does the same with 
> > > a 
> > > local terminal or if telnetted in. So, not sure what would be missing 
> > > that 
> > > would case it to act in this manner.
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> > What about busybox's less? Does it work better?
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> Tried adding less to the busybox build, and it does the same thing.
> In looking  at the code, it does a return bb_cat(argv) in code.

Hm... Is your input/output a tty? What does the command "tty" output?

Also, ls -l /proc/self/fd

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