less5 - 2 fixes and an enhancement...

[id for use with uunet/usenet]

In article <12247 at steinmetz.ge.com>, davidsen at steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
> Could I suggest that it would be appropriate to have the author gather
> all of the patches, evaluate them, and either release a new version or a
> single patch file which will apply all of the valid fixes?
> 
> Also, as useful as the ability to read some compressed file formats is,
> I would rather keep less small and use the appropriate utility piped
> into less when needed. (That's an opinion)

As the summary states: K(eep)  I(t) S(imple) S(tupid).  In other words,  I am
in full agreement to keep  the decompression stuff out of less.

Jonathan Bayer
Intelligent Software  Products, Inc.