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- From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
- Subject: Re: 'less' as man pager
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.134641.4576@Warren.MENTORG.COM>
- Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group
- References: <1992Sep1.151046.1@vxdesy.desy.de> <1992Sep1.182958.28859@hou.amoco.com> <1992Sep1.193032.29332@hou.amoco.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:46:41 GMT
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- In <1992Sep1.193032.29332@hou.amoco.com> jim@n5ial.chi.il.us writes:
-
- >seems I can't cancel my own article. oh well..... anyways, in the news
- >batch right after I posted this, came the answer. thanks to whoever
- >mentioned /usr/ucb/page --- that fixed it, just like that.
-
- Why not just switch to the version of man re-written in Perl?
- (available on ftp.uu.net). It does everything man does on other
- systems, plus it's faster than ones written in "C". You can set
- it up for various pagers, or just "setenv PAGER foo" to use "foo".
-
- There is a paper in the first or second Usenix LISA conference
- proceedings called "The Answer to all Man's Problems". Read it,
- learn it, love it. Perl.
-
- Tom
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- Tom Limoncelli -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work) -- tal@plts.uucp (play)
- "Oh! I thought it was one of those useless demos of everything that
- a GUI builder could do." -Anonymous person watching demo of
- Solaris 2.0's graphical tool for managing NIS+
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