Re: read ODF files using less

[Bernhard Voelker]

Dear e-letter,

On 04/17/2013 01:27 PM, e-letter wrote:
> Readers,
> 
> Apologies if irrelevant, but curious to investigate why 'less'
> installed on a mandriva box is able to open an opendocumentformat
> file, but less on a opensuse box complains that such file is binary?
> 
> Any ideas how to investigate further?

less and therefore this question is not related to GNU coreutils,
but this is the mailing list of GNU coreutils.

I can't tell for Mandriva, but for openSUSE you're better off
asking on one of their mailing lists, or where less' RPM package
tells you:

  $ rpm -qi $( rpm -qf $( which less )) | grep http
  Packager    : http://bugs.opensuse.org
  URL         : http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/

Or where the documentation of less points you:

  AUTHOR
    Mark Nudelman <address@hidden>
    Send bug reports or comments to the above address or
    to  address@hidden.
    See http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/bugs.html for the
    latest list of known bugs in less.
    For more information, see the less homepage at
    http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less.

My personal guess is that one of the 2 distributions has added
some patches on top of the upstream less version which makes the
difference (if you refer to the same version at all ...).

Have a nice day,
Berny