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- From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
- Subject: Re: 'less' as man pager
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- References: <1992Sep1.151046.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:13:40 GMT
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- sys_sprute@vxdesy.desy.de (Lars Sprute) writes:
- > use 'less' as the pager for the man pages.
-
- Yeah, Ultrix man is a dog. Read the ultrix-faq, available at
- gatekeeper.dec.com, or just do this:
-
- cd /usr/ucb
- mv page page.old
- ln -s /usr/local/bin/less page
-
- which is what I did.
-
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