Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 09:06:30 +0300
From: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il. (Eli Zaretskii)
To: djgpp-announce AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Less 290 port to DJGPP

I've uploaded to omnigate.clarkson.edu:/pub/msdos/djgpp/pub a
port of Less 290 to DJGPP.  This includes full source ready
to be built under DJGPP, and pre-built executables.  The
executables were built with the GNU Rx package and GNU glob.c
file-globbing function, so if you want to distribute these
programs, you should know they are L?GPL.  If this bothers you,
you can always rebuild Less without these two; you will have
to tweak defines.dj and Makefile.dj for this, as they are
configured to use both Rx and glob.c.  I've put a poor-man
replacement for glob.c into the sources, but you will lose
Unix-style file-globbing inside Less if you use it.

The uploaded archive also includes a corrected version of
DJGPP's gppconio.c module.  The version in your libc.a
library has a bug (IMHO) in the insline() function which
will cause Less to behave erratically when scrolling.

Once you get the archive (called less290a.zip), unzip it to
any directory and read the file Readme.dj.  It explains the
port I've done and gives the instructions on compiling it,
if you want to.

If you see any problem which you think is specific to DOS
or DJGPP port, please tell me about it.  If you aren't
sure if this is a DOS/DJGPP issue, tell me anyway.  I'm
working with the author of Less to include DJGPP support
in the next public release.