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- From: ratinox@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Richard Pieri/Stainless Steel Rat)
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- Subject: Re: 'less' as man pager
- Message-ID: <RATINOX.92Sep15215433@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>
- Date: 16 Sep 92 01:54:33 GMT
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- >>>>> "JVH" == Jon Vander Hill <jcv26@cas.org> writes:
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- JVH> I believe many man's (many men?) will use a $PAGER variable
- JVH> if it's defined which can be set to "less". Personally, I don't
- JVH> like making symlinks to circumvent my PATH if I can avoid it.
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- Sun's "man" understands PAGER and MANPATH, as does Tom Christiansen's
- excellent man written in perl. Bugtrix's doen't use either (stupid,
- drain-bamaged Bugtrix).
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- --Rat
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