[1.7] Updated: less-418

Sat Jun 6 19:25:00 GMT 2009

This version is ancient. See:
 http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/
for current release.
On 6/6/2009 12:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I've made a new version of 'less' available for installation. This
> is the most recent version of less available from ftp.gnu.org. The
> description of what's new from the last release is below.
>> This version of less drops the reliance on /etc/termcap and uses the
> much more modern terminfo library for its terminal handling.
>> This update is only available for the Cygwin 1.7 beta.
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>>> ***** Excerpted from the less NEWS file *****
>> NEWS about less
>> 	Major changes between "less" versions 416 and 418
>> * Color escape sequences are now supported in WIN32 build.
>> * Makefile now uses EXEEXT feature of autoconf.
>> * Fix search bug when using -R and text contains ANSI color escape sequences.
>> * Fix crash when using -r with UTF-8 text containing 0x9B bytes.
>> * Fix display bug when using ' command to move less than one page forward.
>> * Update GPL to version 3.
>> ======================================================================
>> 	Major changes between "less" versions 409 and 416
>> * New --follow-name option makes F command follow the name of a file
> rather than the file descriptor if an open file is renamed.
>> * Make searching with -i/-I work correctly with non-ASCII text.
>> * Fix DJGPP build.
>> ======================================================================
>
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