Dale Scheetz writes: >When more runs under man, the back screen (b) function doesn't >work. If you do a ? the help screen declares that this and several >other page movement functions should work, but don't. Is this normal? >If I run more from the prompt, the back page function works >flawlessly (well, it works anyway) so this must be something coming >from man. It's very frustrating to have to q, up arrow/enter, and >page back down to the page just before the one I was on.
You want to install `less' (see /debian/binary/misc/ on the ftp site.) This will allow you to go backwards even when the input comes from a pipe. You may want to set a PAGER variable somewhere to make sure it actually gets used. -- Richard Kettlewell <URL:http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/> Work+home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home only: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
