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- From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
- Subject: Re: Don't you hate it when...
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- Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- References: <227311@zl2tnm.gen.nz> <BxrExx.J7F@NeoSoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:25:19 GMT
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- In <BxrExx.J7F@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >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.
-
- Errhm, don't System-V-ish versions of man use "nroff | ul | more" to work
- around this problem?
-
- >If
- >you have "less" installed, try setting "PAGER" in your environment to "less".
-
- Agreed.
-
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- Hans Mulder hansm@cs.kun.nl
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