ok its using less as its pager.

my redhat system seems to do tthe same, and doesn't set PAGER or
MANPAGER in the environment. I guess it doesn't need to as man has a
sensible default.

IMHO most *is* a great pager though.


On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:54:06 +1200
"Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] robert]$ man man
> [1]+  Stopped                 man man
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] robert]$ ps
>   PID TTY          TIME CMD
>  4707 pts0     00:00:00 bash
>  4750 pts0     00:00:00 man
>  4753 pts0     00:00:00 sh
>  4754 pts0     00:00:00 sh
>  4758 pts0     00:00:00 nroff
******>  4759 pts0     00:00:00 less.bin
>  4762 pts0     00:00:00 groff
>  4764 pts0     00:00:00 grotty
>  4768 pts0     00:00:00 ps
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] robert]$ fg
> man man

> 
snip a bunch of sigs and robert's annoying joke of the day :-)

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