more(1) has gotten more demanding?

[Erik Trulsson]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:12:46PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> I recently saw this on the serial console for a box:
> 
> cyrus# ps ax | more
> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
> -  (press RETURN)
> 
> more(1) now seems to want me to acknowledge the inadequacy of my serial 
> console every time I view any file.  I'm sure it didn't always do this, and 
> to be honest, I would rather it continued to not do this very time I view a 
> file or man page.  Or for every patch applied by mergemaster.

As a workaround you should be able to use the '-d' option to less(1) to
suppress that message.  If you do not wish to add that to the commandline
you can put the options into the LESS environment variable.



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