Bug#38178: [Konsole-devel] Bug#38178: less handling in konsole

[Waldo Bastian]

On Monday 18 February 2002 01:25 pm, Offer Kaye wrote:
> Stephan,
> I have:
> * less 358
> * xterm - I don't know the version, typing "xterm -version" gives an error
> and a usage mesage that lists in its option [-version], so that seems like
> I just found another bug, this time in xterm... sigh :-(
> * XFree86 - I don't know, whichever comes default with Mandrake 8.1.
>
> *** Note- I just tried "/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm.real -version" and it
> returned: XFree86 4.0.3(156)
>
> Hope that answers the above questions. But I still think "xterm -version"
> should have worked...
>
> Anyway, I'm not sure what to make of your comment- are you agreeing with me
> that the current behaviour is problematic, or do you disagree? If you
> disagree, on what grounds?

Based on the information the bug seems to in less. less should be perfectly 
able to discover the terminal size. appearantly it isn't or uses a mechanism 
for it that isn't widely supported.

Cheers,
Waldo
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