cmanis@petro.UUCP (Cliff Manis) (07/28/87)
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Does someone out there have 'LESS' working on MSDOS, or is someone
working on it for DOS ? ? If so, please send me a note.
One of my clients who has SCO ver 2.1.3 (XT Version) has a
program named 'LESS' for the Xenix machine. It is GREAT and is
similiar to 'MORE' but is more powerful than 'MORE'. I also have
'LESS' working on the AT version of SCO 2.1.3, . . . (the shared file
is over 115,000 bytes of C programming.....
Many thanks to the 14 people who sent me answers on the "print the screen
from a batch file" program.
Thanks for any answers or comments. . Cliff Manis
..!seismo!petro!cmanispaul-l@obelix.UUCP (07/31/87)
In article <310@petro.UUCP> cmanis@petro.UUCP (Cliff Manis) writes: > >. >Does someone out there have 'LESS' working on MSDOS, or is someone >working on it for DOS ? ? If so, please send me a note. > I am also VERY interested in the program! Where can I obtain it? In one of the ibm newsgroups? (I know it was posted, say half a year ago, but unfortunately it never reached me.) If you have the executable program or the source code (in MicroSoft C, De Smet or Lattice-C) and send it to me on a 5.25" 360kB floppy disk together with one or two empty floppy disks, I shall be glad to return the extra floppies filled with nice (Public Domain) programs and utilities. You will find my postal address below. Thanks in advance, - Paul Paul Leffler Bjornkarrsgatan 9B:11 S-582 48 Linkoping SWEDEN %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% UUCP: paul-l@obelix.liu.se | {seismo,mcvax}!enea!liuida!obelix!paul-l ARPA: paul-l%obelix.{liu.se,UUCP}@seismo.CSS.GOV Paul Leffler, Univ. of Linkoping, Sweden (Undergraduate Student) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost) (08/02/87)
In article <310@petro.UUCP> cmanis@petro.UUCP (Cliff Manis) writes: >. >Does someone out there have 'LESS' working on MSDOS, or is someone >working on it for DOS ? ? If so, please send me a note. I have a version of "more" that incorporates the basic features of "less" except its ability to work on multiple files. It is also much, much faster than "less". Unfortunately, it only runs under MS-DOS but if you have a version of UNIX then you can use the other one anyway. This program was written by me. It is not public domain. It is copyrighted with unlimited distribution clauses. Just don't strip out the copyright and you can do with it what you want. The program is written in Turbo Pascal. There are two versions -- one is written to use ANSI codes and therefore will run on just about any machine you care to name. The other has enhanced screen write routines and runs like greased lightning. Unfortunately it snows the screen on CGA systems, but it's fast enough to make this a small inconvenience (besides, it's usually fast enough to blur the image when scrolling, so you can't read it anyway). I didn't bother to put in the delays necessary to avoid snowing because I don't have a color screen so it doesn't affect me :-). If anyone out there wants it, I have a uuencoded version of the standard program online, as well as source if you want to play with it. It's not fantastically well written but I wanted a useful utility not a class project. The ANSI version operates somewhat differently and is not yet online; I should have it online in just a few weeks. I have source, too (after all, I wrote the silly thing), but I will only send that out to people who individually request it. I'm trying to keep distribution centralized. Again, this is *not* "less". It does not support many of the features of "less". It is simply a very, very fast paging utility that allows backward scrolling. The uuencoded version is not very long. It has been posted before so others will have it. If you don't have uudecode but can get TPascal (it *must* have Turbo because it's not real pascal :-) then I can send you the source. Interested parties? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jim Frost * The Madd Hacker | UUCP: ..!harvard!bu-cs!bucsb!madd H H | ARPA: madd@bucsb.bu.edu H-C-C-OH <- heehee +---------+---------------------------------- H H | "We are strangers in a world we never made"
hoff@hp-sdd.HP.COM (Tom Hoff) (08/03/87)
In article <1255@obelix.liu.se> paul-l@obelix.liu.se (Paul Leffler) writes: >In article <310@petro.UUCP> cmanis@petro.UUCP (Cliff Manis) writes: >>Does someone out there have 'LESS' working on MSDOS, or is someone There is a version of less in Turbo C on Compuserve in the Borland SIG. I wouldpost it but Compuserve gets a little touchy about people distributing stuff from their system. --Tom
dmt@mtunb.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman) (08/04/87)
In article <310@petro.UUCP> cmanis@petro.UUCP writes: > >. >Does someone out there have 'LESS' working on MSDOS, or is someone >working on it for DOS ? ? If so, please send me a note. > After I tried "LIST" (shareware by Vernon D. Buerg) I threw away my MSDOS LESS. LIST does everything LESS does, and (1) doesn't have nearly as many bugs, (2) gives MUCH faster response, (3) uses the cursor keys to navigate the file. I have version 5.91 (1986). I remember a dangerously buggy version circa 1984, but the recent LIST is great. Disclaimer - I have no connection with the authors of either LESS or LIST. +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dave Tutelman | | Physical - AT&T - Lincroft, NJ | | Logical - ...ihnp4!mtuxo!mtunb!dmt | | Audible - (201) 576 2442 | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (08/05/87)
In article <1021@mtunb.ATT.COM> dmt@mtunb.UUCP (Dave Tutelman) writes: |In article <310@petro.UUCP> cmanis@petro.UUCP writes: |> |>. |>Does someone out there have 'LESS' working on MSDOS, or is someone |>working on it for DOS ? ? If so, please send me a note. |> |After I tried "LIST" (shareware by Vernon D. Buerg) I threw away |my MSDOS LESS. LIST does everything LESS does, and (1) doesn't |have nearly as many bugs, (2) gives MUCH faster response, (3) uses |the cursor keys to navigate the file. | |I have version 5.91 (1986). I remember a dangerously buggy version |circa 1984, but the recent LIST is great. I have LIST61, and find it highly useful... but... it has a modem control (Alt-E) to toggle from 25 to 43 line mode on EGA, and when it resets to 25 line mode it seems to actually set 24 line mode. I use it but always reset the comsole by "MODEM CO80" after running LIST. Obviously the older version didn't have the feature or the bug, and no, I haven't tried it on a real IBM EGA. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {chinet | philabs | sesimo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
jvc@mirror.UUCP (08/06/87)
Other useful features of List (I have version 6.0j, 10/27/86): EGA mode Can wrap long lines or view long line by moving window to the right Can toggle between text and hex dump Top window can be frozen The hi-bit can be stripped Can jump to any line in file by specifing line number Can toggle print mode (anything displayed on the screen is routed to the printer) A ruler can be displayed on the top line It's a very useful program. jvc@mirror.tmc.com