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Subject: Re: strange "less" behaviour on big files
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Kai Mosebach <kai@freshx.de> writes:
> i lessed a 1.0 gig file filled with zeros and less seems to slurp in
> as much as it can get at one time!

AFAIK, it tries to read one entire line; since your file doesn't
contain any line feed characters, it ends up reading the entire file.

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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no