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RE: ls and pager
- To: Iftach Hyams <paraduma(at-nospam)elbit.co.il>
- Subject: RE: ls and pager
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:53:42 +0300 (IDT)
- Cc: "'Nadav Har'El'" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>, <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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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
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