Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#3546 closed task (fixed)

Possible inaccurate text on Chapter 6 Perl page

Reported by: Chris Staub Owned by: lfs-book@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 7.6
Component: Book Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Description

On the Perl installation page in Chapter 6, the description for the -Dpager switch reads:

-Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR"

This corrects an error in the way that perldoc invokes the less program.

According to ​the bug report that suggested the addition of that switch, the main reason for it was to add -R to the less invocation. However, "less -R" is now the default for Perl, if it finds a less binary. If less is not found, it will use more instead. Therefore, a better description for the -Dpager option would be that it ensures that less is used instead of more.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by bdubbs@…, 12 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

Fixed at revision 10537.

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