'Printer' 'Video' using less not working
Jean-Pierre A. Radley
appl at jpr.com
Fri Jun 9 18:46:14 PDT 2006
Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants) propounded (on Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:21:57PM -0400):
| Believe it or not at 6/9/2006 04:43 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley said:
| >Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants) propounded (on Fri, Jun 09,
| >2006 at 04:26:04PM -0400):
| >| Running filePro 5.0.9 on SCO OSR5.
| >| One of the 'printers' is 'Video' which outputs the report to the
| >| screen using less, I select this 'printer' when using the -pq
| >| flag. I have one client when I try to use Video nothing 'prints' to
| >| the display, I am immediately returned to the menu, or if I try to do
| >| a hardcopy from dclerk I am returned to the screen. In both cases
| >| the output should display on the screen but it doesn't. Does anyone
| >| have any idea why it is not displaying the report to the screen using
| >| less and how to get it to display the report to the screen using less.
| >|
| >| ps: Less is in my path and I am able to run it from the command prompt.
| >
| >Is LESS in the environment? If so, what is it set to?
|
| I'm sorry for not including that information, I meant to but it
| slipped my mind when I was posting. Anyway, the only environment
| setting I have for less is LESS=S. I have this same setting on other
| system and it works as expected, that's what is so baffling.
I presume $TERM setting is also the same?
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JP
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