From: gvaughan AT oranda DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Gary V. Vaughan)
Subject: Re: less, misbehaving - BASH 2.02
7 Oct 1998 07:56:52 -0700
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To: Jonathan Storey <joz AT mentor-systems DOT com>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

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This time I really  did attach the script!

"Gary V. Vaughan" wrote:
> 
> Jonathan Storey wrote:
> >
> > I have come across this problem on my WinNT(SP3) box using
> > cygwinb19(.4).dll (669150bytes) and BASH.EXE 2.0.2(1) when
> > using telnet utilising Sergey's inetd remote utilities.
> >
> > I have since got round the problem by reverting to BASH.EXE 2.01(1).EXE
> 
> I am still using Sergey's coolview cygwinb19.dll, and have the same
> problem.  Here is a script to which I have aliased less to get around
> the problem.  Is Earnie Boyd fixing bash for b20?  Or should we bring it
> to the attention of someone else?
> 
> I make that two fairly critical bugs in bash that I would like addressed
> in b20:
> 
>         a) The ^C sends SIGINT to all background jobs
>         b) SIGTTYIN/OUT signal arrives spuriously from time to time
> 
> Cheers,
>         Gary.
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#! /bin/sh

# work around a problem in bash-2.02 w. cygwin32 b19

LESS=${LESS-/usr/local/bin/less}

for arg; do
  case $arg in
  -)  files="$files $arg"; shift;;
  -*) LESSFLAGS="$LESSFLAGS $arg"; shift;;
  *)  files="$files $arg"; shift;;
  esac
done

cat $files | $LESS $LESSFLAGS

exit 0

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