try setting the environmental variable PAGER to less or set MANOPT to
-P less.  read man man

On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 03:21:23AM -0700, John Bagdanoff wrote:
> When I use man as user, it is starting up gxditview, & in console mode
> this is not nice.  
> 
> I noticed this behavior a couple of weeks ago, but as yet haven't
> found how to change it back to using less.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> John
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