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 ...
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104
mailto://finn@midco.net http://www.midco.net
finger finn@kepler.midco.net for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: