According to # Rayner Christopher: While burning my CPU.
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> I have just managed to get my Slackware 3.0 version installed. Whilst
> grappling with mounting and unmounting floppies I queried some commands with
> man. But man didn't quite behave as expected. The screen output was just a
> reverse video text field at the bottom of the screen, with no man entries
> appearing. The only way to get out was using vi type commands (eg. :q!).
>
> Anybody seen this ? Anything to do with my screen/terminal setup ?
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> /Chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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'man <program_name>' like;
'man cp'
should show the manual page for the cp command.
Whatever the file winmail.dat is made up of i dont know, uudecode uncoded
it, but what ever i try i cant read it, so i dont know how the man page
looks like on your screen.
However as an alternative you should still be able to read man pages with
'groff' like;
groff -Tascii /usr/man/man1/cp.1 | more
Normaly $TERM would be linux, use 'echo $TERM' to see what it is.
You can change the default term (if its defined in /etc/termcap) with
'TERM=vt100' for example.
The command 'set' will show the users enviroment.
Other than that, an explanation without more information would be rather
difficult.
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Regards Richard.
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