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Date:      Mon,  6 Feb 1995 20:50:07 +0300
From:      "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, Satoshi Asami <asami@freefall.cdrom.com>, cvs-ports@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/utils/less/patches patch-ab
Message-ID:  <zGF5cDlqk2@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <199502060605.WAA13478@freefall.cdrom.com>; from Satoshi Asami at Sun, 5 Feb 1995 22:05:40 -0800
References:  <199502060605.WAA13478@freefall.cdrom.com>

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In message <199502060605.WAA13478@freefall.cdrom.com> Satoshi Asami
    writes:

>  Added:       utils/less/patches patch-ab
>  Log:
>  Color patch.  Lets ANSI color sequences through.
>  Picked-up from: netbsd.csie.nctu.edu.tw:/pub/FreeBSD/packages-jdli/source

Wrong move.
1) Original author _not_ to do this.
2) I always use less to examine binary files and want reasonable
output instead of color mess.
3) Non-ANSI terminals still exists and widely spreaded.
Please, back out it and contact with original author for any
feature.
-- 
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ache@astral.msk.su       : That any beholder  /Might fancy me dead -
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RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team :         E.A.Poe         From "For Annie" 1849



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