Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <3756C4B6.45044222@lbin.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 11:08:55 -0700 From: Ian Zimmerman Organization: Lightbinders, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygnus tools mailing list Subject: Re: less not suspendable References: <19990603180108.7243.rocketmail@web124.yahoomail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Earnie Boyd wrote: > > --- Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > > > > --- Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > > > > > > The less program as distributed with B20 seems to ignore the interactive > > > > stop signal, or automatically continue itself. > > > > > > > -8<- > > > > > > Please enlighten me as to why you would need an interactive stop signal > > with > > > less when less displays a screen full of data and then stops? > > > > To start another program? I work this way on my X-less home Linux > > machine all the time. > > I don't see it as an option under the help screen. You're right. How come it works on Unix though? Looks like I need to get the source and investigate. There's probably a broken #ifdef somewhere. > However, you can use ! to > execute a shell command. Not good enough. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com