jbudet@oakhill.UUCP (Jim Budet) (02/13/90)
I use less on my Sun at work and have heard that it has ported to the PC. Can anyone tell me where I can get it? I do not have the ability to ftp so I am looking for a mail server archive or a kind sole to mail it to me. Thanks; =============================================================================== Jim Budet Usenet: oakhill!jbudet@cs.utexas.edu Motorola Microprocessor Products Group Compuserve: 73177,171 Austin, Texas Phone: (512) 891-3175 ===============================================================================
frotz@drivax.UUCP (Frotz) (02/16/90)
jbudet@oakhill.UUCP (Jim Budet) writes:
] I use less on my Sun at work and have heard that it has ported to the PC.
] Can anyone tell me where I can get it? I do not have the ability to ftp
] so I am looking for a mail server archive or a kind sole to mail it to me.
You would not be very happy with the only ported version that I have.
It uses the BIOS for all screen updates, is locked into 80x25 and so
it is a pain to use on [VE]GAs. You would be better off using list
7.x. This has several very nice (and very quick) video services
(including [EV]GA support).
I have source to less v97 if you are interested in porting it. My
recommendation is that you continue using less on your unix box, and
use list on your DOS box.
--Frotz @Digital Research, Incorporated amdahl!drivax!frotz
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Monterey, California 93940 Ask for John Fa'atuairichard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain) (02/16/90)
In article <H83DAC8@drivax.UUCP> frotz@drivax.UUCP writes: >jbudet@oakhill.UUCP (Jim Budet) writes: > >] I use less on my Sun at work and have heard that it has ported to the PC. >] Can anyone tell me where I can get it? I do not have the ability to ftp >] so I am looking for a mail server archive or a kind sole to mail it to me. > >You would not be very happy with the only ported version that I have. >It uses the BIOS for all screen updates, is locked into 80x25 and so >it is a pain to use on [VE]GAs. You would be better off using list >7.x. This has several very nice (and very quick) video services >(including [EV]GA support). > I have less v 123 ported to MSDOS and when c.b.i.p resumes I'll post it. It has extensions (optional) which require TurboC library routines, but I'd like to have someone try it with MSC or other system to see how hard it is to port. It does output to console device, or to bios or to video RAM, and should support all text modes. It will also output to a sub-window. Of course, it is about 5x the size of list, but then it does more. Anyone want to beta-test this with a non-TurboC compiler ? Richard Brittain, School of Elect. Eng., Upson Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 ARPA: richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu UUCP: {uunet,uw-beaver,rochester,cmcl2}!cornell!calvin!richard
jpd@pc.usl.edu (DugalJP) (02/17/90)
Less is a neat tool under UNIX, but for MSDOS I would recommend Vernon Buerg's LIST shareware. It is FANTASTIC and does all that I ask of less. -- -- James Dugal, N5KNX Internet: jpd@usl.edu Associate Director Ham packet: n5knx@w5ddl Computing Center US Mail: PO Box 42770 Lafayette, LA 70504 University of Southwestern LA. Tel. 318-231-6417 U.S.A.
malpass@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (Don Malpass) (02/22/90)
In article <3951@rouge.usl.edu> jpd@pc.usl.edu (DugalJP) writes: >Less is a neat tool under UNIX, but for MSDOS I would recommend Vernon >Buerg's LIST shareware. It is FANTASTIC and does all that I ask of less. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall, when I originally tried LIST I was favorably impressed, but found that it couldn't be used as a pipe - had to give it a file name. Am I correct about that? If not, I'll find it and try it again. -- Don Malpass [malpass@LL-vlsi.arpa], [malpass@gandalf.LL.mit.edu] Seen on T-shirt: "A computer is a machine which is dumber than a human but smarter than a programmer." 2/90
jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill) (02/22/90)
In article <436@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> malpass@ll-vlsi.arpa.UUCP (Don Malpass) writes: >Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall, when I originally tried LIST >I was favorably impressed, but found that it couldn't be used as a pipe >- had to give it a file name. Am I correct about that? If not, I'll >find it and try it again. List can be used as a pipe...you just have to hunt around in the docs a bit. My autoexec contains the line "alias more c:\util\list.com /s", replacing DOS' brain-damaged MORE command. I assume the /s switch stands for "read from Stdin" or some such. -- Jason Merrill jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu
CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum) (02/22/90)
In article <436@vlsi.ll.mit.edu>, malpass@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (Don Malpass) says: > >In article <3951@rouge.usl.edu> jpd@pc.usl.edu (DugalJP) writes: >>Less is a neat tool under UNIX, but for MSDOS I would recommend Vernon >>Buerg's LIST shareware. It is FANTASTIC and does all that I ask of less. I heartily agree! LIST is *superb*! >Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall, when I originally tried LIST >I was favorably impressed, but found that it couldn't be used as a pipe >- had to give it a file name. Am I correct about that? If not, I'll >find it and try it again. No, no! Use "LIST /S" to pipe from standard input! Virtually, - Charles Martin Hannum II "Klein bottle for sale ... inquire within." (That's Charles to you!) "To life immortal!" cmh117@psuvm.{bitnet,psu.edu} "No noozzzz izzz netzzzsnoozzzzz..." c9h@psuecl.{bitnet,psu.edu} "Mem'ry, all alone in the moonlight ..."
roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) (02/22/90)
In article <436@vlsi.ll.mit.edu>, malpass@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (Don Malpass) writes: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall, when I originally tried LIST > I was favorably impressed, but found that it couldn't be used as a pipe > - had to give it a file name. Am I correct about that? If not, I'll > find it and try it again. Try, say, type file|list /s... Course, I use the fully enhanced List. This might not work with the standard or small versions. -- _R_o_y _M_. _S_i_l_v_e_r_n_a_i_l | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "Every race must arrive at this #include <opinions.h>;#define opinions MINE | point in its history" SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, | ........Mr. Slippery Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc. | <Ono-Sendai: the right choice!>