On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
>
> 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.
This behavior in less has been repaired. You can now less the proc file
system with no problems. This is an entirely different problem. Moreover,
it's one that I can't reproduce. The following works as expected:
rm temp
touch temp
less temp
<less shows a file with no content>
What version are we talking about? I'm using 290-8 with none of these
problems, however, when I upgrade to 321-1 I get the results that have
been described. It looks like the fix that went into 290 didn't propogate
into the newer 321 release. I'll go back to my old e-mail and see if I can
find the patch.
In the mean time, downgrade to the "stable" 290-8 version.
Luck,
Dwarf
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