Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uccba!uceng!kamat From: kamat@uceng.UC.EDU (Govind N. Kamat) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Inverse Characters in man Message-ID: Date: 20 Jul 89 16:41:15 GMT References: <228@bnrunix.UUCP> <1340062@hpclkms.HP.COM> Sender: kamat@uceng.UC.EDU Distribution: na Organization: College of Engg., University of Cincinnati Lines: 22 In-reply-to: ken@hpclkms.HP.COM's message of 19 Jul 89 20:17:00 GMT >Does anyone know how to turn off character highlighting for man? It drives me >nuts. For what it's worth, I'm using HP-UX 6.2. Thanks. > >Rick Johns For what its worth, you could use: man $command | col -b | more Anyone have any other suggestions? In /bin/sh: MORE=-u; export MORE In /bin/csh: setenv MORE -u I cannot understand why the man command doesn't use the pager specified in the PAGER environment variable -- yet another of HP's user-hostile programs, I guess. -- Govind N. Kamat College of Engineering kamat@uceng.UC.EDU University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA