Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ispi!jbayer From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: less5 - 2 fixes and an enhancement... Summary: KISS Message-ID: <198@ispi.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 88 14:01:03 GMT References: <1396@zen.co.uk> <12247@steinmetz.ge.com> Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc. Lines: 14 In article <12247@steinmetz.ge.com>, davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes: > Could I suggest that it would be appropriate to have the author gather > all of the patches, evaluate them, and either release a new version or a > single patch file which will apply all of the valid fixes? > > Also, as useful as the ability to read some compressed file formats is, > I would rather keep less small and use the appropriate utility piped > into less when needed. (That's an opinion) As the summary states: K(eep) I(t) S(imple) S(tupid). In other words, I am in full agreement to keep the decompression stuff out of less. Jonathan Bayer Intelligent Software Products, Inc.