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From: Will Beers <whbeers@mbio.ncsu.edu>
To: Kostadin Karaivanov <k.karaivanov@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: less
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:30:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4148B459.6060306@mbio.ncsu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6dd83da040914074469c4f521@mail.gmail.com>

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I had this problem (and quite a few others), and what seems to work for me 
is to disable CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS.

Will

Kostadin Karaivanov wrote:
> I'm slackware user
> today I upgraded mu box to kernel 2.6.9-rc2
> for surprize the command less stops to work
> after displaying of exactly one screen output it exits with following
> 
> here is e example 
> #man ip
> ...........................
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> System command /bin/bzip2 -c -d /usr/man/cat8/ip.8.bz2 | /usr/bin/less
> -is exited with status 256.
> root@larry:~#
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      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-16  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-14 14:44 less Kostadin Karaivanov
2004-09-15 21:30 ` Will Beers [this message]

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