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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.notes
Subject: Re: PAGER variable problem
Message-ID: <349@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-Feb-85 17:49:22 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.349
Posted: Sun Feb  3 17:49:22 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 3-Feb-85 21:42:57 EST
References: <26000001@smu.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: create a file which calls page -s

In article <26000001@smu.UUCP> joe@smu.UUCP writes:
||Notes looks at the environment variable PAGER to determine
||if you want to use a different program than /usr/ucb/more to look at
||the help page.  The problem is there is no way to pass parameters to
||the program. (e.g., I would like to run my own pager program, say
||page, invoking it as page -s).  Has anyone fixed this?

Well, it's a kludge, but you can create your own shell file which
simply calls page -s, and make the shell file your $PAGER.

Dave Sherman
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