June 2006 - Darwin-dev - lists.apple.com

Re: Behavior or "less" on different systems?
by Jordan K. Hubbard 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com - Jordan On May 31, 2006, at 8:10 PM, Walt Pawley wrote: I muck about with Mac OS X (mostly) and FreeBSD (much less), and I'm fairly certain this may not be the proper venue for this question. But I'm in dire need of some floatation because I'm about to drown in documentation (to say nothing of "terminal" confusion). The question: On my LAN, when I telnet to a Mac OS X machine and use "less" to look at a file, when I quit it, the only remaining data on the screen is the command invoking the activity. However, when I telnet to a FreeBSD box and do the same thing, all the scrolled text is left in the terminal window. Is there (a hopefully simple) means of making the FreeBSD boxes behave like the Mac OS X boxes? -- Walter M. Pawley <walt(a)wump.org> Wump Research & Company 676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97470 541-672-8975 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/jkh%40apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app… The easiest way of disabling the "alternate screen" feature for all applications which use it (the list of which is not confined to less (1)) is to set your TERM variable to point to a terminfo entry which doesn't contain the init strings which toggle it. Try using the vt100 or vt102 entries ("setenv TERM vt100"). This email sent to jkh(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

1 0

Re: Behavior or "less" on different systems?
by Lassi A. Tuura 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; s=beta; d=cern.ch; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PgKaYAsq/UehZI3qwI1EqecFtsoB5relrPukvPsdUy+MnudHmQSQ0bae0NHaWwAptpbNq7qRyJNt60LHAWEeh3o3nexoWBzrQ56DF7rdP+/xL/NtTNPpy+5A61KuAJcZ; Keywords: CERN SpamKiller Note: -51 Charset: west-latin The question: On my LAN, when I telnet to a Mac OS X machine and use "less" to look at a file, when I quit it, the only remaining data on the screen is the command invoking the activity. However, when I telnet to a FreeBSD box and do the same thing, all the scrolled text is left in the terminal window. Is there (a hopefully simple) means of making the FreeBSD boxes behave like the Mac OS X boxes? "export LESS=X", or "less -X", read man page why. Lassi _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

1 0

Re: Behavior or "less" on different systems?
by Justin C. Walker 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com On May 31, 2006, at 23:10 , Walt Pawley wrote: I muck about with Mac OS X (mostly) and FreeBSD (much less), and I'm fairly certain this may not be the proper venue for this question. But I'm in dire need of some floatation because I'm about to drown in documentation (to say nothing of "terminal" confusion). The question: On my LAN, when I telnet to a Mac OS X machine and use "less" to look at a file, when I quit it, the only remaining data on the screen is the command invoking the activity. However, when I telnet to a FreeBSD box and do the same thing, all the scrolled text is left in the terminal window. Is there (a hopefully simple) means of making the FreeBSD boxes behave like the Mac OS X boxes? Regards, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds -------- Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it. -------- _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app… Check the setting of the environment variable TERM. I suspect that it differs on the two systems, and you will want it the same for the same behavior. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

1 0

Behavior or "less" on different systems?
by Walt Pawley 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com I muck about with Mac OS X (mostly) and FreeBSD (much less), and I'm fairly certain this may not be the proper venue for this question. But I'm in dire need of some floatation because I'm about to drown in documentation (to say nothing of "terminal" confusion). The question: On my LAN, when I telnet to a Mac OS X machine and use "less" to look at a file, when I quit it, the only remaining data on the screen is the command invoking the activity. However, when I telnet to a FreeBSD box and do the same thing, all the scrolled text is left in the terminal window. Is there (a hopefully simple) means of making the FreeBSD boxes behave like the Mac OS X boxes? -- Walter M. Pawley <walt(a)wump.org> Wump Research & Company 676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97470 541-672-8975 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

1 0

Re: DADiskEject and Resource Busy errors
by Stephen F. Booth 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.app… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

1 0