Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:12:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu Subject: Re: Stopping Less from creating Log Files Message-ID: <201104122312.p3CNCAL2076350@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <201104111636.p3BGab4r016267@x.it.okstate.edu>
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> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:36:37 -0500 > From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> > Subject: Stopping Less from creating Log Files > > This is a minor problem but I use "more" to read Email messages > from nmh. If one forgets what screen one is in, it is possible > to start typing and create a log file of the message in which > ever mailbox directory one is reading out of. > > The man page for more is actually linked to less even > though FreeBSD has /usr/bin/more and less. There is only one executable -- it has two hard links, thus giving the alternate names. > I even tried in the > .mh_profile to call more with -Oo/dev/null but if you hit a key, > the "logfile" prompt appears and any subsequent key strokes are > part of the new file name. > > This really is only a minor nuisance because it creates > junk files that then have to be removed from the directory. So, > if there is a way to make more or less not write anything, it > would be more or less appreciated. It is said: "For every fool-proof system, there exists a sufficiently-determined fool capable of breaking it." We have a winner! For the named programs, more or less, anyway.
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