Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!noao!arizona!naucse!jdc From: jdc@naucse.UUCP (John Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Less version 123 (beta) -swc bug Keywords: blank lines (not ~) don't always erase Message-ID: <1724@naucse.UUCP> Date: 29 Sep 89 13:55:16 GMT Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ Lines: 22 The newest version of less came right up and ran for me--in fact it seemed so stable that I just made it my default. Man pages, however, started to annoy be in that the last piece of the man page (you know a few lines and an END prompt) was put on top of a non-blank screen. It seems that ``less -swc'' does not erase the blank lines as it should. In other words, ``less -sc'' puts tildes (~) in place and everything is cool, but requesting ``less -swc'' doesn't blank out the lines (the w option says use blank lines instead of ~ lines for "emptiness"). I didn't have time to look at the source code yet. I expect the problem is easy to fix--if only I weren't so busy. Anyone else fixed it? Also, the documentation says that -c just ignores the check to see if characters are 8 bits or not. (Man pages are inherently 7 bits, right?) Anyway, -c seems to do more than that. As far as I can tell the -c switch also causes different scrolling behavior--repainting from the top of the screen instead of scrolling the screen. Who can explain this? -- John Campbell ...!arizona!naucse!jdc CAMPBELL@NAUVAX.bitnet unix? Sure send me a dozen, all different colors.