[NTLUG:Discuss] gless missing from gnome-utils

[Paul Ingendorf]

Don't take this for the gospel but I would imagine it stood for gnome's
less.  You would probably be able to use plain less for your pager program.
Just a shot in the dark.  If it is a part of gnome and has a nice pretty gui
it brings up there is probably something that bested it in the new release
and you might try investigating that to see what it may be called.  Try
something like rpm -ql gnome-utils | grep bin see what executables are
installed man them and see what they all do.

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
Of Val W. Harris
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 12:09 AM
To: NTLUG Discuss
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] gless missing from gnome-utils


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
--
Val W. Harris              vwharris at airmail.net

"If you have tried to do something but couldn't,
you are far better off than if you tried to do
nothing and succeeded" - John T. Ragland, Jr.


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