'Printer' 'Video' using less not working
Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants)
rtr at rsquared.com
Fri Jun 9 20:57:55 PDT 2006
Believe it or not at 6/9/2006 09:46 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley said:
>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?
>
>--
>JP
> ==> http://www.frappr.com/cusm <==
TERM=scoansi and PFTERM=ansic on all systems
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