less problem
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Wed Jan 17 17:39:12 UTC 2007
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 12:03 pm, 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).
Because stdin isn't connected to a tty, so it can't figure out how big your
terminal is.
It should be looking at _stdout_, not stdin.
Rob
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