Hi folks, I am doing small custom modifications of SmartOS installer, where I have to use less to display few files and want to use its paging capabilities. However, less is “misbehaving” in a sense that it displays only what fits on the screen and then quits. Files itself don’t fit on single screen. While debugging this I found out following things:
- /dev/console doesn’t allow me to set rows and columns via stty - the problem occurs with more programs, not just less, e.g more (illumos one, not less), man (less is invoked) - setting TERM from xterm-color to other terminal types doesn’t change anything (I tried, vt100, xterm, sun-color) Looking around the Internet I found this: http://compgroups.net/comp.unix.solaris/solaris-console-has-no-scroll-capability-so/457791 <http://compgroups.net/comp.unix.solaris/solaris-console-has-no-scroll-capability-so/457791>. I tried to send reset control sequence, but the behavior is the same. When I test run the installer on booted SmartOS machine, less works as expected, so it. What should be done, so the scrolling works on /dev/console? Any hints appreciated. Cheers, Adam
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