> Please try it yourself, it's not really a question only I can answer
> for you (less is doing the work, that's what -R is for....).

Ok a brief look at the source for less, the code that processes -R
is truly broken.

- it will get terribly confused by any other escape sequences
- it definitely doesn't do anything that will make the output
  appear corrently on a non-ansi terminal.

	David

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