RE: MSVC compilation patch: less from GnuWin32

[John W. Eaton]

On  7-Nov-2006, address@hidden wrote:

| It's not a bug, it's a feature :-)
| 
| Looking at Less code, it appears that the -X flag disable the terminal
| initialization. This code is responsible for calculating the size of the
| Windows console, storing the current console buffer, and so on.
| When this flag is set, Less does not know about the console size and
| does not restore the console state on exit. So it really looks like the
| -X flag does not have the same meaning as in the UNIX version.

OK.  Is there a way to determine that the gnuwin32 version of less is
being used?  What does less --version return?

jwe