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Dear user,
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the 'less' application, thanks to its preprocessor, is able to show even binary
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formats using calls to external commands. Since not every user finds this
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feature plausible, you have the opportunity to customize behavior of 'less'
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using the environment variable LESS_ADVANCED_PREPROCESSOR. By default, it's set
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to "no" in /etc/profile -- thus if you require less to handle binary formats,
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set this in your startup scripts:
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export LESS_ADVANCED_PREPROCESSOR="yes"
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Remark for experienced users:
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If you had already set this switch and want to temporarily override it, you can
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force 'less' to read a file from its standard input instead, e.g.:
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less < dumb.ps
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will show the source PostScript, and not the "rendered" result.
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