Re: Debian 2.0 release requirements

[Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>]

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote:

> 
> it is nice property of "less" (as opposed to "more") that it filters
> out all non-ascii charachters (changes them to some ^... printable
> sequencies). As a result, it is not possible to trash the console by
> doing "less <some binary file>" or, more important - if something
> bad happened and you created a file(s) with some non-ascii charachters,
> "ls" will trash the console while "ls | less" will show you everything
> and let you delete it.

I think that LESSCHARSET=latin1 as default wouldn't trash your console and
it would show most of what it should show ... 

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