-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2005-09-08 at 16:19 +0200, Tom Weber wrote:
$ less big-file.txt
How big?
...and nothing happens. Instead, I get another shell prompt, but I can't write anything (at least it's not echoed on screen). I press return and get a new shell prompt, but on the same row as the previous (no newline between). I hit Ctrl-D to exit that shell, and now the "less" screen shows up, and everything is back to normal.
Strangely, "less < big-file.txt" works fine, and all other situations where less reads from stdin. I have tried different terminal emulators, and the bug persists. When I log into another machine and do "less file" (where less is part of another OS), there is no problem. Therefore, I believe the bug is in less. Perhaps in a library, since vimdiff seems to have the same problem.
Has anyone else encountered this?
No... Does that file have "strange" chars? Is your system fully updated (YOU)? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDIeHttTMYHG2NR9URAqkmAJ9baSnkDI7boouPPVH9SxZ7GpBJ9QCffsDQ ow3o+swn//yZ1ZWR22KoMkM= =ocyd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----