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From: ron@afsg.apple.com (Ron Flax)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: less vs man under a/ux
Message-ID: <516@afsg.apple.com>
Date: 11 Jan 91 16:36:48 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.083632.11854@panix.uucp>
Organization: Apple Federal Systems Group
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In article <1991Jan9.083632.11854@panix.uucp> wfp@panix.uucp (Bill Phillips) 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.  

What you want to do is modify the /usr/bin/man script, the problem is
that it calls /usr/bin/ul to do underlining before calling $PAGER, and
this causes behavoir that is incompatible with less.

Change the line that reads:
	mypager="ul | $PAGER"
to
	mypager="$PAGER -s "

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Ron Flax
ron@afsg.apple.com	
Apple Federal Systems Group