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- From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: Don't you hate it when...
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 13:32:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <BxrExx.J7F@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <227311@zl2tnm.gen.nz>
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- In article <227311@zl2tnm.gen.nz> don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
- > Probably not. But note <a> that the stupid thing had been told that it had
- > a VT100 on the end
-
- What stupid thing are we talking about? UNIX doesn't know terminfo from
- /dev/null. It's up to the application to handle that sort of thing. If you
- were to specify what program (version/release/...) you were using to display
- the man pages perhaps we could help.
-
- Most System-V-ish systems use "more" to page man entries. "More" doesn't know
- how to translate sequences of spaces and backspaces to control sequences. If
- you have "less" installed, try setting "PAGER" in your environment to "less".
- If it's not installed, FTP it. If "man" doesn't use "PAGER", try just piping
- "man" output to "less".
-
- If you can't figure that out by yourself, mind if I interview for your job?
- --
- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
- `-_-' "Meg÷lelted mßr ma a farkasodat ?"
- 'U` "Zure otsoa besarkatu al duzu gaur?"
- Das kann nicht mein Zimmer sein, denn ich atme kein Ammoniak.
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