'Printer' 'Video' using less not working

Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants) rtr at rsquared.com
Fri Jun 9 18:21:57 PDT 2006


Believe it or not at 6/9/2006 04:43 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley said:
>Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants) propounded (on Fri, Jun 09, 
>2006 at 04:26:04PM -0400):
>| Running filePro 5.0.9 on SCO OSR5.
>| One of the 'printers' is 'Video' which outputs the report to the
>| screen using less, I select this 'printer' when using the -pq
>| flag.  I have one client when I try to use Video nothing 'prints' to
>| the display, I am immediately returned to the menu, or if I try to do
>| a hardcopy from dclerk I am returned to the screen.  In both cases
>| the output should display on the screen but it doesn't.  Does anyone
>| have any idea why it is not displaying the report to the screen using
>| less and how to get it to display the report to the screen using less.
>|
>| ps: Less is in my path and I am able to run it from the command prompt.
>
>Is LESS in the environment? If so, what is it set to?
>
>--
>JP
>         ==> http://www.frappr.com/cusm <==

I'm sorry for not including that information, I meant to but it 
slipped my mind when I was posting.  Anyway, the only environment 
setting I have for less is LESS=S.  I have this same setting on other 
system and it works as expected, that's what is so baffling.
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