From: Andy Parkins Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:06:31 GMT Subject: Re: MinGW port - initial work uploaded Message-ID: <200701231506.32396.andyparkins@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Tuesday 2007 January 23 14:21, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Uhm. You do understand that we use MinGW to port to, not _plain_ Windows? > So we do have a "less". Nope; I didn't. Oh dear. I've obviously misunderstood. I thought MinGW was for compiling to native Windows? Do you use MinGW to compile to cygwin as well? > That was not Windows. That was DOS. I'm sure pipes were still awful in Win98. I accept though, that it is possible Windows has changed in the last 9 years :-) > With less, on the other hand, you just exit the pager, or let it search > through stdin. It is so much more convenient. That sounds better than I remember. You'll have talked me into migrating to Windows soon :-) Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@gmail.com