fuck u ass old why u send meges again and gain
----- Original Message -----
From: Manas Laha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Ban Html mail


> Tathagata Banerjee wrote:
> > no, it doesn't. a script called lesspipe.sh does, though not
> > 'automatically'. i mean it doesn't interpret html on its own. it
> > determines the target filetype with /usr/bin/file, (and if the type is
> > found to be html) takes a text dump with the help of lynx, and reads
> > that temporary file. what sometimes makes lesspipe's invocation
> > transparent is the fact that on some boxes /usr/bin/less is a symlink to
> > /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh.
>
> I'm using what is, by this LUG's standards, _old_ software -- I'm still
> with RH6.2! In less v3.46 (and older ones) lesspipe.sh does not
> determine the filetype using the "file" command. Rather, you have to
> edit this file to say what program you want to run on a file with a
> particular extension. For example, any file with an extension of .1 or
> .2 ... .9 is automatically taken by less to be a manpage and processed
> through groff.
>
> Also, to transparently make this work with these (presumably ancient)
> versions of less, you have to define an environment variable called
> LESSOPEN that has the value "|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s" -- /usr/bin/less
> is not symlinked to /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh. This is what the less manpage
> terms an "input filter". The input filter does not have to be
> /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh, it could be any filter program.
>
> I depend fairly heavily on my less input filter (which I have modified
> somewhat to suit my needs) for everyday use of Linux. Has the way less
> works changed in the newer versions? Because if it has, then that's one
> more headache for me when I'm forced to upgrade.
>
> - Manas Laha
>
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