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Re: Attn: Newbies Re: Random "Broken Pipe"



On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote:

: On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:27:21 -0600 (CST) <finn@midco.net> wrote:
: > One thing it will change is the behavior of 'make config' when
: > recompiling the kernel ... namely when you choose ``?'' to get more
: > information about that particular option.  ``less'' will make you choose
: > ``q'' to get back to the config menu.  This is logical, but nevertheless
: > unexpected if you've made a kernel with ``more'' as the pager ...
: 
:      I set "LESS=-Miqe" in my /etc/profile.  (It could be in
: .bash_profile as well.)  The -q "Causes  less  to automatically exit
: the second time it reaches end-of-file."  This makes the behavior
: mentioned above more like "more".

Well I'll be damned :)  I learn something every day!! Thanks for the
tip ...

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