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- From: braun@aa.cad.slb.com (Matthew Braun)
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- Subject: Re: 'less' as man pager
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.193317.20255@aa.cad.slb.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 19:33:17 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.134641.4576@Warren.MENTORG.COM>
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- If you don't have System adminstration power but would still like to use
- less as the pager for man, you can do the following:
-
- have a directory in your path before /usr/ucb, e.g. ~/bin
- link page to less: cd ~/bin ; ln -s /usr/local/bin/less page
- man sure it will find your page, instead of /usr/ucb's: rehash
-
- This has a slight advantage over the alias man option. When you attempt
- to man something that is not found it will not run a pager program.
- Where if you pipe "man <page> | less" it will always run less (then you
- have to press 'q' to quit).
-
-
- Tom Limoncelli (tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- What is Perl? And, I don't know what Usenix LISA conference is.
-
- Also, where can "man-1.1" be found? I ran 'archie man' but didn't see any
- entries that looked right.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Matthew.
-
- ps. Hi Dan
-