From: ken@halcyon.com (Ken Pizzini) Subject: Re: less and regexps Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 11:50:58 GMT
In article <C5GKvv.GG0@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>Is it just me, or does less (version 1.77, SLS-supplied) not accept
>regular expressions in searches under Linux? It certainly doesn't
>behave this way in general. (Yes, I can rebuild it, once I spend a
>half-hour or so downloading the source over a 9600-bps link, but it
>seems peculiar that it wouldn't work in the SLS distribution).
Apparently whoever built the less that is distributed with SLS
decided not to enable regexps. I've upload my less binary to
/pub/Linux/Incoming on sunsite.unc.edu; this has regexps enabled.
--Ken Pizzini