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Re: man pages


--- Michael Hirmke <mh@mike.franken.de> wrote:
-8<-
> 
> Uhm, no, you have to have ncurses, if you use less, which has been built
> to use ncurses for screen control.
> My prebuilt less packages all depend on ncurses, the Cygwin 1.x less
> AFAIK does something different, though.
> 

The official versions of less have coding for Win32 which uses the Win32
Console.  This is what is distributed with Cygwin 1.0.  There is no need to
have ncurses installed.


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