I just sent Frankie a note about an obscure (to me anyway) feature of 'less' which lets it invoke an 'input preprocessor' to decode an input file and present it transparently to the viewer. Apparently my Slackware installation created the necessary environment variable and decoding script when less was installed, and evidently Frankie's installation did not. Eureka! Neither of us is crazy! (not on that account anyway). Chuck My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (98% of Full)
