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Message4474

Author droundy
Recipients Troff, beschmi, czapkofan, dagit, droundy, hoijarvi, kowey, tommy
Date 2008-05-02.15:01:30
Issue Issue784 --help => darcs: darcs84bdba: removeFile: permission denied (Permission denied)
Content
I'd rather not remove the paging support, as this was a feature that folks
did ask for.  Better would be to simply print the help to stdout if paging
fails.

David

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:26:58AM -0500, Kari Hoijarvi wrote:
> Probably it does then.
> 
> Personally speaking, my preferred fix to this bug is to remove paging 
> with less. I can do it myself.
> 
> Kari
> 
> Eric Kow wrote:
> >2008/5/2 Kari Hoijarvi <bugs@darcs.net>:
> >
> >  
> >> Workaround until fix:
> >> - install cygwin.
> >> - If 500 MB download to show a text file is too much for you, look for
> >> "more.com" in your winnt directory, and duplicate it as less.exe 
> >> anywhere in path.
> >>    
> >
> >Out of curiosity, does duplicating more.com as more.exe work as well?
> >(of course, removing less.exe along the way)
> >
> >Darcs is supposed to try 'more' if 'less' fails, so I'm a bit puzzled.
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