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- From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: 'less' as man pager
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.164539.12232@reed.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 16:45:39 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Sep1.164539.12232
- References: <1992Sep1.151046.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- In article <1992Sep1.151046.1@vxdesy.desy.de> sys_sprute@vxdesy.desy.de (Lars Sprute) writes:
- >I would like to use 'less' as the pager for the man pages. (default
- >is 'more'). I tried to define the environment variable PAGER, but it
- >doesn't work, 'more' is still used.
-
- I think, but I'm not positive, that Ultrix's man supports the
- "MANPAGER" environment variable. Yay, Ultrix!
-
- You'll be much happier if you trash the Ultrix man entirely and build
- a different one. I recommend man-1.1, which you can find via archie
- easily enough. It's nicely implemented and supports all sorts of
- modern features, especially the MANPATH variable.
-
- I should try to keep track of how many Ultrix binaries I run these
- days. Not many. I use all the GNU fileutils, shellutils, the GNU
- compilers, the GNU debugger, and lots of other freely available
- software. At least most of it compiles ok under Ultrix.
- --
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- nelson@reed.edu \/ Where do you conceal the gun in a bikini?
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