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From: crehta@tasu77.UUCP (Ran Ever-Hadani)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: NetHack 3.0 patch02 $PAGER bug
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Date: 21 Aug 89 12:00:04 GMT
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Reply-To: crehta@taux01.nsc.com (Ran Ever-Hadani)
Organization: National Semiconductor (IC) Ltd, Israel
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In the /bin/sh file used to exec nethack, the existence of a $PAGER
environment variable is checked.

It is assumed the $PAGER is a single word; in my case, however,
PAGER is set to 'less -sm'.  This causes the sh 'test -x' to scream.

A partial solution is enclosing every appearance of $PAGER in double
quotes.   But when $PATH is searched for $PAGER, the search will fail
and $PAGER will be unset.  I don't know how you can extract the 'less'
from 'less -sm' to solve that.  Any ideas?

-- Ran
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Reply-To: crehta@taux01.nsc.com (Ran Ever-Hadani)
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