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Message4488

Author hoijarvi
Recipients Troff, beschmi, czapkofan, dagit, droundy, hoijarvi, kowey, tommy
Date 2008-05-02.16:31:00
Issue Issue784 --help => darcs: darcs84bdba: removeFile: permission denied (Permission denied)
Content
OOPS, Language ambiguity:

>Personally speaking, my preferred fix to this bug is to remove paging 
>with less. I can do it myself.

I meant I can do paging myself by typing "| more", not that I would remove paging support.

Kari

David Roundy wrote:
> 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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Date User Action Args
2008-05-02 16:31:01hoijarvicreate
2008-05-02 16:31:03hoijarvilinkissue784 messages
2008-05-02 16:31:03hoijarvisetrecipients: + hoijarvi, czapkofan
2008-09-20 14:42:29adminsetrecipients: - czapkofan