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From: sukes@eng.umd.edu (Tasuki Hirata)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: less vs man under a/ux
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.201104.8550@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 91 20:11:04 GMT
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In article <37824@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>wfp@panix.uucp (Bill Phillips) in <1991Jan9.083632.11854@panix.uucp> writes:
>
>	I've been trying to get less working on this system, which runs a/ux,
>	and it seems to work just fine with one exception: when designated as
>	PAGER, and called from man, less displays escape sequences as
>	"^[<whatever>", so you end up with a lot of garbage on the screen, and
>	no highlighting, underlining or whatever.  I've installed less on
>	several systems and have never seen this bizarre behavior before.
>
>I've compiled the EXACT same version of less (ver.5) to run under all of SysV
>on my 3B1 systems, HP-UX 3.* and 7.*, A/UX 2.0, etc. and it works PERFECTLY
>with "man" as $PAGER on all of them.  Note, though, I had to "fix" termcap and
>terminfo under A/UX for proper VT100/VT200 support (since most my usage is
>over the serial or net ports since I dislike the glare on the Apple monitors),
>but no change was required to use the Mac's console.
>
>Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com ]

My kludge was to edit /usr/bin/man....

	change mypager="ul | $PAGER" to "$PAGER"

Don't have to edit the termcap....


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