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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Subject: Re: Less misbehaves when used for "man" pager...
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1991 02:43:47 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.024347.19403@jpradley.jpr.com>
References: <30370@cs.yale.edu> <1991Apr24.073552.26561@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>

In article <1991Apr24.073552.26561@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:
>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.)

It's been done. Chip Rosenthal posted 'yaman', or 'myman', a couple of years
ago.
It isn't too long, so I can email to anyone who wishes.

Jean-Pierre Radley   Unix in NYC   jpr@jpr.com   jpradley!jpr   CIS: 72160,1341