[NTLUG:Discuss] gless missing from gnome-utils

[Val W. Harris]

Do any of the RedHat Gurus know what happened to the file reader/pager
program named gless?

An "rpm -qf /usr/bin/gless" answers "gnome-utils-1.4.0-9" on RedHat 7.3.

I couldn't find it on a new RedHat 8.0 install I just did.  I tried
"rpm -ql gnome-utils-2.0.2-5" and verified it's no longer in the
gnome-utils rpm package.  Does anyone know what the "g" in gless stood
for?  I checked the GNU and Gnome web sites and didn't find any info
about gless.

I wandered RedHat's web site to no avail, also.  My google searches
only found gless for RedHat distro's <= 7.3.

I was using gless to open a new window when I called up a man page.
This allowed me to keep the man page in view while I entered the
command I had just looked up in my original terminal window.  The alias
and function definition I used for this was:

   alias man='_man'

   _man(){
     \man ${1+"$@"} 2>&1 | col -b | gless &
   }

If I can't find gless, I suppose I could use another pager program.
Any suggestions?

Any light anyone can shed on this mystery would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Val
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Val W. Harris              vwharris at airmail.net

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