Help with man command
Ceri Davies
ceri at submonkey.net
Sat Jul 15 12:52:36 BST 2006
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On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 03:20:18AM +0100, Stephen Allen wrote:
> 'man man' tells me that the "-P" options specifies which pager to use.=20
> By default, man uses more -s, and overrides the PAGER environment variabl=
e.
>=20
> As I want man to use 'less' as it's pager, I set the PAGER variable to=20
> /usr/bin/less, but even after logging out and back in again, man=20
> continues to use more. What's wrong and can it be fixed?
That should work, but I wouldn't worry too much.
less and more are the same binary on FreeBSD.
Ceri
--=20
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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