>I found sources for less 177 in garbo.uwasa.fi. I compiled it and
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>noticed it being better than the version we already have (0.97).

I think version 0.97 is much better than 177 :-), mainly because my
version of it has hacks to read compressed files. I seem to remember
that the author of less strongly objected to such impurities, but
when your disk has a lot of compressed files it's nice to be able to
say "less *" and not get garbage or useless warnings about binary
files. I looked at putting decompression in version 177 but the
changes in buffering stdin made things too difficult considering
that 0.97 already works.

Bruce