On 2003-02-04 01:25:13 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > I use "cvs diff 2>&1 | less" a lot. It turns out that if the diff is > large, part of the text is not displayed. I verified this by redirecting > the diff to a file and using "less" on the file -- in that case I see > all the text.
I doubt very much that less is the culprit here, since cvs has a well-known bug for this particular case (which also occurs with grep, BTW). See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=232555 (cvs status with ext: Redirecting both stdout and stderr to the same fd leads to data loss) -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
