Re: [1.7] Updated: less-418

[Mike Cappella <lists-general at cappella dot us>]

This version is ancient.  See:

   http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/

for current release.

On 6/6/2009 12:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I've made a new version of 'less' available for installation.  This
> is the most recent version of less available from ftp.gnu.org.  The
> description of what's new from the last release is below.
>
> This version of less drops the reliance on /etc/termcap and uses the
> much more modern terminfo library for its terminal handling.
>
> This update is only available for the Cygwin 1.7 beta.
>
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>                ***** Excerpted from the less NEWS file *****
>
>                       NEWS about less
>
> 	Major changes between "less" versions 416 and 418
>
> * Color escape sequences are now supported in WIN32 build.
>
> * Makefile now uses EXEEXT feature of autoconf.
>
> * Fix search bug when using -R and text contains ANSI color escape sequences.
>
> * Fix crash when using -r with UTF-8 text containing 0x9B bytes.
>
> * Fix display bug when using ' command to move less than one page forward.
>
> * Update GPL to version 3.
>
> ======================================================================
>
> 	Major changes between "less" versions 409 and 416
>
> * New --follow-name option makes F command follow the name of a file
>    rather than the file descriptor if an open file is renamed.
>
> * Make searching with -i/-I work correctly with non-ASCII text.
>
> * Fix DJGPP build.
>
> ======================================================================

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