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- Less, version 581.2
-
- This is the distribution of less, version 581.2, released 28 Apr 2021.
+ This is the source code distribution of "less".
This program is part of the GNU project (http://www.gnu.org).
This program is free software. You may redistribute it and/or
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=========================================================================
+You should build from a clone of a git repository
+ONLY IF you are doing development on the less source itself.
+If you are merely using less as a tool, you should download a release
+from http://greenwoodsoftware.com and NOT from github.
+
The formatted manual page is in less.man.
The manual page nroff source is in less.nro.
Major changes made since the last posted version are in NEWS.