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In article <59376@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
> In article <1992Jul31.212410.18632@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> wasfy@nic.gac.edu  
writes:
> > Whenever I try to use the shell escape in less my  
> > system struggles for about 15 seconds and finally locks.  
> > Has anyone experienced this type of behavior from  
> > less?  If so, does anyone know a workaround?  Thanks in advance!
> 
> I tried this with the intention of disproving that anything was wrong
> with less on the NeXT - as I've found less to a great improvement over more.
> The same thing happened, but I managed to kill the parent shell before
> the crash, barely.  Its true :(

The NeXT (2.1) version of less is very old (v97). It's buggy in just this
place (some memory allocation bug, I think). I compiled the latest
version from the archives (I got v177), changed it a little (as I wanted to
keep the meaning of 'N" and 'P' by default) it it works fine ..

	Detlev
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