from Glen Barber <g...@freebsd.org>: > less(1) is expecting '+' to be followed by additional arguments.
> If you use 'less -- +DESC', for example, it should work fine. Same with > vi(1). Yes, that works, as does "less ./+DESC". Somehow I thought I had successfully done "less +CONTENTS" successfully before, but I must have preceded filename by path. Less and vi failing when used directly on filename beginning with + is also true for Linux, I checked on Slackware 13.0. Thanks to you and others for helpful responses. Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
