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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:24:36 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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To: Chris Telting <telting AT sprynet DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Less and More Color
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Chris Telting wrote:
> 
> A general *nix question:
> 
> Why doesn't less correctly handle color when I do a
> vdir --color | less
> although
> vdir --color | more
> does handle the colors properly.
> 
> It can't be that less doesn't handle color since when I do
> man(while uses less) keywords apprear in color.

It _is_ less!

Try:

	ls -l --color | less -r

-r is the command line switch for raw input handling. If you don't
use it, less converts the control sequences generated by the color
option of ls into it's special control sequence output.

`more' doesn't "handle" this sequences but is to dumb to detect them.

Corinna



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