Since I put these lines echo "\n" fortune -a echo ""
in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc, less gives me a fortune and the newlines instead of the contents of a file: sos:~> less ei The two party system ... is a triumph of the dialectic. It showed that two could be one and one could be two and had probably been fabricated by Hegel for the American market on a subcontract from General Dynamics. -- I.F. Stone lesspipe.sh: Command not found. When I take out the three lines from /etc/csh.cshrc, I still get this lesspipe.sh: Command not found. error message, but after that the contents of the file are displayed. What could that be? Stef