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On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I've noticed on every Linux box I have here (different versions of
> Mandrake) that using the command LESS to view the contents of a file always
> drops one line per page. This happens via telnet, or even if I'm at the
> console. > > It appears the status line at the bottom covers up text, and
> when you hit SPACE for the next screen, that line never gets displayed. I can
> sort of see it if I use <B> to go back, but it's definitely weird. > > If you
> view a file with only one line, you see nothing! > > My solution has been to
> use MORE intead of LESS, but I would think someone would have caught this
> major problem before. Might I have some config set wrong?
Check your environment variables. See if TERM is set to correctly report what
kind of terminal you are on. The TERM variable is used by less to figure how
many lines are on your screen. If that looks fine, you should check the
environment variable LINES.
- From the less manpage:
LINES Sets the number of lines on the screen. Takes
precedence over the number of lines specified by
the TERM variable. (But if you have a windowing
system which supports TIOCGWINSZ or WIOCGETD, the
window system's idea of the screen size takes
precedence over the LINES and COLUMNS environment
variables.)
- --
Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house)
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