From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from c1422183-a.ross1.pa.home.com([65.9.87.151]) (2117 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:21:49 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from localhost (frankiec@localhost) by c1422183-a.ross1.pa.home.com (8.10.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f28GLoi06452 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:21:50 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: c1422183-a.ross1.pa.home.com: frankiec owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:21:50 -0500 (EST) From: Frank Carmickle X-Sender: frankiec@c1422183-a.ross1.pa.home.com Reply-To: frankiec@braille.uwo.ca To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: tar archives In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi Chuck and all! Yes this was a mistory but now that mistory is history!!! Now making it work like that on my slackware 7.0/7.1 system! I think I know what's happening. I believe that the .lessrc and .less files are not getting sourced on login. Heck they weren't even in root's home directory. So I am going to see if I can't get the slack7.1 upgrade package to fix this. Heh! Maybe! Frank Carmickle phone: 412 761-9568 email: frankiec@dryrose.com On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > I just sent Frankie a note about an obscure (to me anyway) feature of > 'less' which lets it invoke an 'input preprocessor' to decode an input > file and present it transparently to the viewer. Apparently my Slackware > installation created the necessary environment variable and decoding > script when less was installed, and evidently Frankie's installation did > not. > > Eureka! Neither of us is crazy! (not on that account anyway). > > Chuck > > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (98% of Full) > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >