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From: slootman@dri.nl (Paul Slootman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Less misbehaves when used for "man" pager...
Message-ID: <1017@dri500.dri.nl>
Date: 26 Apr 91 07:18:42 GMT
References: <30370@cs.yale.edu>
Organization: DataCount Register Informatici, Wierden, The Netherlands
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In article <30370@cs.yale.edu> fields-doug@CS.YALE.EDU (Doug Fields) writes:
>I have been running less (can't say which version but it's recent. 1.90
>perhaps?) sicne i've been running SCO Xenix and moved to SCO Unix. When
>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 has happened from
>both SCO products, 3.2.2 Unix and 2.3.3 Xenix. Is the TERM environment variable
>somehow misplaced or something?

I've done the same; however, I've noticed that when I encounter an
unformatted manpage while logged in as root, there is *NO* problem.
Logged in as a regular user (running csh), I get the problems described
above.

BTW: If you're looking at a manpage which is being formatted at that
moment, *DON'T* hit 'q' until you're at the end; this could cause you
to end up with a manpage that is not complete. This is especially the
case if the manpage is long (csh comes to mind). Or have I done
something wrong somewhere?
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