From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: Less gives false warnings Date: 2 Sep 1992 16:20:59 GMT
In article <1992Sep2.105254.15291@kth.se> d88-jwn@dront.nada.kth.se (Johan W}hlin) writes:
>In article <C-AMB.92Sep1101734@solitude.math.utah.edu> c-amb@math.utah.edu (Mark B. Alston) writes:
>> When ever I use less, in either vga or svga modes, it warns me
>>that the terminal can't clear to line, move up, ... But, once I hit
>>enter to continue, less is able to perform all of these functions. I
>>am using the termcap from the 0.97.1 root disk. Is there a way to
>>tell less that it really can perform these tricks?
>
>I had this problem and copied the entry for the 80x25 term into the terminal
>mode I always use. The construct with refering to that entry did thus not work.
>I did not fiddle around since I always use this term mode.
The problem that both of you had is a less compiled with an old
termcap library that did not know how to handle the :tc=con-unk:
entries in most of the termcap virtual terminal entries.
The best fix is to get the source for less (from prep.ai.mit.edu or
elsewhere) and recompile less, and I also suspect the version from the
MCC interim version does not have this problem.
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