I'm not sure you can call it a bug, (maybe it's a feature ;) ) because it is a well-known behavior of less (and some other pagers from what I have heard) that they don't work well with files of length 0. This is mostly seen that you can't less any of the files on the proc filesystem because they don't really exist, but you can more them, because more dosen't show the previously mentioned behavior.
Hope this helps, Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > Hi! > > The subject says everything: When I less an empty file (length 0), it > comes up with the help screen. I'm using less_321-1 and call less without > any command line options or any env variables. > > Does someone has a hint how to avoid this? Is this a less or a Debian bug > or did I make a mistake? > > > Cheers, > > Chris > > -- _,, Christian Schwarz > / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > \ / > \\\______/ ! PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 > BA > \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ > -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,----.-.- > "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!" > >
