Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 09:44:45 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: John Schucker <gwynn AT globaldialog DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com, ding AT ptd DOT net
Subject: Re: Bash and less questions.
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On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, I wrote:

> Replace that call to `cputs' with a call to `fputs', and you will get 
> what you want.

A better way would be to just make Less use the code which is already 
there, like so:


        #if MSDOS_COMPILER==BORLANDC || MSDOS_COMPILER==DJGPPC
                if (is_tty && any_display && !speech_friendly)
                {
                        *ob = '\0';
                        cputs(obuf);
                        ob = obuf;
                        return;
                }
        #endif

If you define `speech_friendly' to be 1, Less will use the code which 
calls `write' to write to stdout/stderr (right below the above fragment), 
and `write' uses DOS I/O, exactly like `fputs' does.