less problem

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 06:03:30PM +0100, Dirk Clemens wrote:
>I have found a ,less' problem while using
>bb 1.3.1 under mips:
>
>I use a terminal with about 50 lines.
># less a_file
>works fine and uses the whole terminal height.
>
>But
># less <same_file
>uses only the top 24 lines (23 text + 1 status line).

what does
$ stty -F /dev/tty size
and
$ stty -F $(tty) size
say?

We are getting the size from the tty your (kbd) input comes from, from a
short glance.