From: Dennis Flaherty (dennisf@miles.com)
Date: 09/24/92


From: dennisf@miles.com (Dennis Flaherty)
Subject: Re: man help...
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 21:22:15 GMT

In article <1992Sep24.035004.25829@random.ccs.northeastern.edu> mirons@ccs.northeastern.edu (Michael A. Irons) writes:
>
> I noticed the problem with Less also. There seems to be a problem with
> the less binary and the termcap file. It can't follow the tc at the and of the
> termcap entries. Since the default TERM type id con##x##, which only sets the
> width & higth of the term, and then tc's the base VC definition, it fails to
> see the rest of the VC define, and thinks that it doesn't have these funcions.
> In a nutshell, the binary is bad and needs to be replaced. Could the person who
> did the original binary please step forwards (preferably with a newer binary!)

No, it's not the binary; it's the /etc/termcap distributed on the root disk.
Get an old copy of the termcap and Less will work fine. A recompiled Less
will operate the same way.

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Miles, Inc.            dflahert@chekov.helios.nd.edu
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