Thread: Re: PostgreSQL missing "less"

Re: PostgreSQL missing "less"

From
Jason Tishler
Date:
David,

Please post instead of sending private email.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:45:03PM -0500, David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
> I'm writing to you because I find you in the docs for PostgreSQL for
> Windows.
>
> My problem is that I'm trying to learn PostgreSQL using Windows XP at
> an INternet cafe, and it installed nicely but refuses to five
> information, instead returning "$less: not found."
>
> The command less.exe is indeed not to be found in th e PostgreSQL tree
> -- but I can't find it on the Cygwin site, either: everything that
> looks like "less" turns out to be either an index page or an html
> cover page of some kind.
>
> I don't want to go messing up this cafe's computer by installing the
> whole of brute Cywin on in. Is there an easy way of just getting that
> single command?
>
> Help and advice welcomed.

Install the less package using Cygwin's setup.exe.

Jason

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