Re: Need software to view blob.

In article <1lc5d7INN81l@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> promdist!bill@pds.com (Bill Foote) writes: >> >> less will still involve a shell to run under. > >[...] > >Perhaps I misunderstood the point of your question... I assumed that >you were looking for a program that views text that wouldn't let the >*user* fork a subshell, presumably because the user isn't trusted. On our system (SunOS), I found that less, more and pg all correctly recognized the convention of setting the environment variable SHELL='' to disable banging out to the shell. However, the version of less on our system had a bug that dumped you out to /bin/sh if you requested help but the help file was missing. I think it was a pretty old version, around #120 or something like that. I don't know what the current version is, or if the bug has been fixed. Walt. -- Walt Hultgren Internet: walt@rmy.emory.edu (IP 128.140.8.1) Emory University UUCP: {...,gatech,rutgers,uunet}!emory!rmy!walt 954 Gatewood Road, NE BITNET: walt@EMORY Atlanta, GA 30329 USA Voice: +1 404 727 0648