[NTLUG:Discuss] gless missing from gnome-utils

[Kenneth Loafman]

I remember it was for 'gunzip | less', which can be replaced by an alias 
such as [alias gless='gunzip --stdout $1 | less'], or something slightly 
more elaborate.

...Ken

Paul Ingendorf wrote:
> 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
> 
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