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2 Conventions and environment

Unless stated otherwise, all utilities assume Unix path name conventions. Directory lists are separated by a colon `:'.

The following environment variables affect the execution of the manual utilities. Note that the preference setting `ignore global environment' for `ixemul.library' may cause the man utilities to ignore the variables. If `ixemul.library' is configured to ignore the global environment (`ENV:'), these variables must be `set' locally in every shell (or in `S:Shell-Startup' on the Amiga).

MANPATH
a colon (`:') separated list of directories. If set, its value overrides `/GG/man' as the default directory search path, and the `man.cf' file as the default section search path. The `-M' flag, in turn, overrides these values. It is normally not required to set this variable.
PAGER
a program to use for interactively delivering man's output to the screen. If not set, `less -e' is used.
TERM
the `TERM' environment variable is not used by manutils directly, but by the default pager less. It should be set to `amiga'.
LESS
the `LESS' environment variable is not used by manutils directly, but by the default pager less. Less takes it's options from `LESS'.
LESSCHARSET
the `LESSCHARSET' environment variable is not used by manutils directly, but by the default pager `less'. It should be set to `latin1' to display all of the ISO-8859-1 character set.

There are a many more environment variables for less. Please refer to the online manual for less.


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