| README (367516) | README (369759) |
|---|---|
| 1************************************************************************** 2************************************************************************** 3** ** 4** The FreeBSD Project has chosen to redistribute and modify Less under ** 5** the 'Less License' (as described in the 'LICENSE' file). ** 6** ** 7************************************************************************** 8************************************************************************** 9 | 1************************************************************************** 2************************************************************************** 3** ** 4** The FreeBSD Project has chosen to redistribute and modify Less under ** 5** the 'Less License' (as described in the 'LICENSE' file). ** 6** ** 7************************************************************************** 8************************************************************************** 9 |
| 10 Less, version 563 | 10 Less, version 581.2 |
| 11 | 11 |
| 12 This is the distribution of less, version 563, released 13 Jun 2020. | 12 This is the distribution of less, version 581.2, released 28 Apr 2021. |
| 13 This program is part of the GNU project (http://www.gnu.org). 14 15 This program is free software. You may redistribute it and/or 16 modify it under the terms of either: 17 18 1. The GNU General Public License, as published by the Free 19 Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any 20 later version. A copy of this license is in the file COPYING. 21 or 22 2. The Less License, in the file LICENSE. 23 | 13 This program is part of the GNU project (http://www.gnu.org). 14 15 This program is free software. You may redistribute it and/or 16 modify it under the terms of either: 17 18 1. The GNU General Public License, as published by the Free 19 Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any 20 later version. A copy of this license is in the file COPYING. 21 or 22 2. The Less License, in the file LICENSE. 23 |
| 24 Please report any problems to bug-less@gnu.org. 25 See http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less for the latest info. | 24 Please report any problems at https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues. 25 See https://greenwoodsoftware.com/less for the latest info. |
| 26 Source repository is at https://github.com/gwsw/less.git. 27 28========================================================================= 29 | 26 Source repository is at https://github.com/gwsw/less.git. 27 28========================================================================= 29 |
| 30This is the distribution of "less", a paginator similar to "more" or "pg". 31 | |
| 32The formatted manual page is in less.man. 33The manual page nroff source is in less.nro. 34Major changes made since the last posted version are in NEWS. 35 36======================================================================= | 30The formatted manual page is in less.man. 31The manual page nroff source is in less.nro. 32Major changes made since the last posted version are in NEWS. 33 34======================================================================= |
| 37PRE-INSTALLATION (when using git) | 35INSTALLATION (Unix & Linux systems only): |
| 38 | 36 |
| 39If you are building from a clone of a git repository, 40type "make -f Makefile.aut". 41If you are building from a numbered release package (a tar or zip file 42with a name like less-999.tar.gz or less-999.zip), you should skip this step. 43 44======================================================================= 45INSTALLATION (Unix systems only): 46 | |
| 471. Move the distributed source to its own directory and unpack it, 48 if you have not already done so. 49 | 371. Move the distributed source to its own directory and unpack it, 38 if you have not already done so. 39 |
| 502. Type "sh configure". | 402. If you are building from a clone of a git repository, 41 type "make -f Makefile.aut". 42 If you are building from a numbered release package (a tar or 43 zip file with a name like less-999.tar.gz or less-999.zip downloaded 44 from greenwoodsoftware.com, not from github), you should skip this step. 45 463. Type "sh configure". |
| 51 This will generate a Makefile and a defines.h. 52 Warning: if you have a GNU sed, make sure it is version 2.05 or later. 53 54 The file INSTALL describes the usage of the configure program in 55 general. In addition, these options to configure are supported: 56 57 --with-editor=program 58 Specifies the default editor program used by the "v" command. --- 15 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 74 none No regular expressions, only simple string matching. 75 76 --with-secure 77 Builds a "secure" version of less, with some features disabled 78 to prevent users from viewing other files, accessing shell 79 commands, etc. 80 81 | 47 This will generate a Makefile and a defines.h. 48 Warning: if you have a GNU sed, make sure it is version 2.05 or later. 49 50 The file INSTALL describes the usage of the configure program in 51 general. In addition, these options to configure are supported: 52 53 --with-editor=program 54 Specifies the default editor program used by the "v" command. --- 15 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 70 none No regular expressions, only simple string matching. 71 72 --with-secure 73 Builds a "secure" version of less, with some features disabled 74 to prevent users from viewing other files, accessing shell 75 commands, etc. 76 77 |
| 823. It is a good idea to look over the generated Makefile and defines.h | 784. It is a good idea to look over the generated Makefile and defines.h |
| 83 and make sure they look ok. If you know of any peculiarities of 84 your system that configure might not have detected, you may fix the 85 Makefile now. Take particular notice of the list of "terminal" 86 libraries in the LIBS definition in the Makefile; these may need 87 to be edited. The terminal libraries will be some subset of 88 -lncurses -lcurses -ltermcap -ltermlib 89 90 If you wish, you may edit defines.h to remove some optional features. 91 If you choose not to include some features in your version, you may 92 wish to edit the manual page "less.nro" and the help page "less.hlp" 93 to remove the descriptions of the features which you are removing. 94 If you edit less.hlp, you should run "make -f Makefile.aut help.c". 95 | 79 and make sure they look ok. If you know of any peculiarities of 80 your system that configure might not have detected, you may fix the 81 Makefile now. Take particular notice of the list of "terminal" 82 libraries in the LIBS definition in the Makefile; these may need 83 to be edited. The terminal libraries will be some subset of 84 -lncurses -lcurses -ltermcap -ltermlib 85 86 If you wish, you may edit defines.h to remove some optional features. 87 If you choose not to include some features in your version, you may 88 wish to edit the manual page "less.nro" and the help page "less.hlp" 89 to remove the descriptions of the features which you are removing. 90 If you edit less.hlp, you should run "make -f Makefile.aut help.c". 91 |
| 964. Type "make" and watch the fun. | 925. Type "make" and watch the fun. |
| 97 | 93 |
| 985. If the make succeeds, it will generate the programs "less", | 946. If the make succeeds, it will generate the programs "less", |
| 99 "lesskey" and "lessecho" in your current directory. Test the 100 generated programs. 101 | 95 "lesskey" and "lessecho" in your current directory. Test the 96 generated programs. 97 |
| 1026. When satisfied that it works, if you wish to install it | 987. When satisfied that it works, if you wish to install it |
| 103 in a public place, type "make install". 104 105 The default install destinations are: 106 Executables (less, lesskey, lessecho) in /usr/local/bin 107 Documentation (less.nro, lesskey.nro) in /usr/local/man/man1 108 If you want to install any of these files elsewhere, define 109 bindir and/or mandir to the appropriate directories. 110 | 99 in a public place, type "make install". 100 101 The default install destinations are: 102 Executables (less, lesskey, lessecho) in /usr/local/bin 103 Documentation (less.nro, lesskey.nro) in /usr/local/man/man1 104 If you want to install any of these files elsewhere, define 105 bindir and/or mandir to the appropriate directories. 106 |
| 111If you have any problems building or running "less", suggestions, 112complaints, etc., you may mail to bug-less@gnu.org. | |
| 113 114Note to hackers: comments noting possible improvements are enclosed 115in double curly brackets {{ like this }}. 116 117(Note that the above note was originally written at a time when 118"hackers" most commonly meant "enthusiastic and dedicated computer 119programmers", not "persons who attempt to circumvent computer security".) 120 --- 137 unchanged lines hidden --- | 107 108Note to hackers: comments noting possible improvements are enclosed 109in double curly brackets {{ like this }}. 110 111(Note that the above note was originally written at a time when 112"hackers" most commonly meant "enthusiastic and dedicated computer 113programmers", not "persons who attempt to circumvent computer security".) 114 --- 137 unchanged lines hidden --- |