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RE: ls and pager



On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Iftach Hyams wrote:

> Thank you for the answers.
>
> > Read another manual, and use "less -R"....
> O.K. , I have nothing to say about this ( maybe alias less='less -R' :) ).

I would make that alias 'lessc' or something else.

When I run 'less' I am guaranteed that it won't screw-up my console. If
you allow it to interepert control chars, then the next time you 'less'
some garbage file, you may end up screwing up your terminal.

>
> You have to understand something -
> I can do with aliases, scripts in ksh, man pages etc.
>
> "My" users will either ask for Windowz or nag me that the Linux is
> not working well \ is not freindly \ both ...
> So sometimes the needs are viewed to the general user who (rightly) doesn't
> care about RAW-CONTROL-CHARS.

If you are the one who should support those users, then this is probably
something you should consider.

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir



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