Subject: bin/1171: "more" is not 8-bit clean
To: None <gnats-admin@sun-lamp.pc.cs.cmu.edu>
From: Andreas Gustafsson <gson@araneus.pp.fi>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/29/1995 06:05:06
>Number:         1171
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       "more" is not 8-bit clean
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 29 06:05:03 1995
>Originator:     Andreas Gustafsson
>Organization:
Araneus Information Systems Oy
>Release:        NetBSD-current i386 binary snapshot of May 15, 1995
>Environment:

System: NetBSD araneus.pp.fi 1.0A NetBSD 1.0A (GUANO) #0: Fri Jun 16 16:31:43 EET DST 1995 gson@araneus.pp.fi:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GUANO i386

>Description:
	/usr/bin/more strips the eighth bit of the displayed
	text.  This makes it unusable for displaying text files
	containing ISO Latin 1 -encoded national characters.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Attempt to display a file containing 8-bit text using
	"more".

>Fix:
	Since the NetBSD "more" is actually "less", and newer,
	8-bit clean versions of "less" exist, one way to fix the
	problem is to integrate one of those.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: