On 10/20/15 3:17 , Adam Števko wrote:
> 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.

Well, what device is your /dev/console? Is it ttya, ttyb, the vga
console, etc.?

Robert



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