X-Authentication-Warning:	delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f
Message-Id:	<201106261602.p5QG2pv4002543@delorie.com>
From:	Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
To:	djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU less 444 uploaded.
Date:	Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:51:58 +0200

This is a port of GNU less 444 to MSDOS/DJGPP.


  DJGPP specific changes.
  =======================

  This port no longer uses the supplied DOS/DJGPP specific files defines.ds and
  Mekefile.dsg.  To configure this package the stock configure script is used.
  All the required support files are stored in the /djgpp directory.  You can
  configure the sources by starting config.bat and passing the required options.

  To be able to compile the sources snprintf() and some other functions are
  required.  These functions are provided by libsupp.a, so you will need to
  install the package:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/lsupp64a.zip
  before you can configure and compile the sources.

  This port also offers perl-regexp (pcre) support so if you want to compile
  the sources with this feature you will have to install the pcre library
  first.  This is available as:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/pcre812b.zip
  or
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/pcre812b.zip
  If you want this feature you will have to reconfigure and recompile the
  port passing the "pcre" command line option to config.bat.  By default
  this feature will be disabled and the stock posix regex support will be
  compiled in.  The binary package contains both programs, the one without
  pcre support is called "less" and the one with pcre support is called
  "lesspcre".  Keep the one you prefer and delete the other one.

  This port has been configured and compiled to use the MS-DOS "edit" as the
  default editor.  Which editor shall be used at runtime can always be specified
  by the VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables.  At runtime, less will detect
  which editor shall be started and adjust the command line options passed to
  the editor accordingly.  This means that edit will get only the file name but
  all other editors get all default options or those options specified by the
  LESSEDIT environment variable.

  Less will search for all configuration and history files at the standard posix
  places and with the standard posix names before searching at the standard dos
  places with the standard dos names.
  Less will look for the system wide configuration files as:
    /dev/env/DJDIR/bin/.sysless (deprecated; with LFN support)
    /dev/env/DJDIR/bin/_sysless (deprecated; without LFN support)
    /dev/env/DJDIR/etc/sysless
    c:\_sysless
  Less will always give the posix versions precedence over the dos versions of
  the files.  This means that it will try to load /dev/env/DJDIR/etc/sysless
  and if this fails it tries to load c:\_sysless.  The other twos are deprecated
  but still supported.  Here again /dev/env/DJDIR/bin/.sysless will be tried
  first and if it fails because it does not exists or because no LFS support is
  available then /dev/env/DJDIR/bin/_sysless will be tried.
  The same applies to the user configuration files and history files.  The user
  configuration file will be searched as $HOME/.less and if this fails the dos
  version $HOME/_less will be tried.  If this fails too then the file _less
  will be searched along the dos path as it used to be.

  I have build this port with LFN support.  I do not know if it is possible to
  build it without.

  As usual, all djgpp specific files (config.bat, diffs, README files, etc.)
  are located in the /djgpp directory.  The changes I have done to the sources
  are documented in the /djgpp/diffs file.


  For further information about GNU less please read the info docs and NEWS file.



  The port has been compiled using stock djdev203 (patchlevel 2) and consists
  of two packages that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors
  as (timestamp 2011-06-25):

    less 444 binaries, info and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/lss444b.zip

    less 444 source:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/lss444s.zip


  The binaries have been produced a second time using the stock version of
  djdev204 beta library.  This package is available at ftp.delorie.com and
  mirrors as (timestamp 2011-06-25):

    less 444 binaries, info and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/lss444b.zip


  Send less specific bug reports to <bug-less AT gnu DOT org>.
  Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to
  comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.

Enjoy.

    Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>

- Raw text -