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From: curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson)
Subject: Re: Less misbehaves when used for "man" pager...
Organization: Mad Artists' Technological Hangout
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 07:35:52 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.073552.26561@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>
References: <30370@cs.yale.edu>

In article <30370@cs.yale.edu>
  fields-doug@CS.YALE.EDU (Doug Fields) writes:

> I edit the /etc/default/man so that it uses less for the pager instead
> of pg, and you try to read a un-formatted man page (I installed the TPS
> from Xenix on my Unix), less will spew out a ton of warnings about things
> the terminal can't do, such as scroll backwards, etc.

This is not a problem with less.  The SCO 'man' command is rather
broken.  If you substitute more for less, you will notice that more
will not do the underlining that it normally does if man has to
run the formatter on the page.

I've been meaning to write a shell script to replace man for quite a
while, but haven't gotten around to it.  There's probably one out
there already, anyway.  Anybody care to give me a pointer to it?  (If
there isn't, I'll probably get on it sooner.)

cjs
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