Bug in "less" (counterpart of more)

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From: Erach A. Irani
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:39

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Hi,
	If you do a "!ls" shell escape command on a Next machine, it goes into
a loop and the entire machine (all windows) become very slow until the job is
killed.
	Does anyone have the fix for this bug.
	Is there a GNU/public-domain version of less/more that I can easily 
install on a NeXT.
	Thanks,
	Erach

	As you know:
1. You cannot set the EDITOR environment variable and hope that will influence
the choice of editor in more.  So you use less which has this capability.
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From: irani@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Erach A. Irani)
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Subject: Bug in "less" (counterpart of more)
Summary: Bug in less, fixes available ?
Keywords: need a pager, bug-free, editor settable
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