Try this on your ssh session: m a n space minus c space afterboot
With the "minus c" option, the "man" program doesn't use "more" and shows the full man page. I guess that this behavior is better for your screen reader because it only needs take into account the scroll of your terminal. On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:19:42PM -0700, Eric Oyen wrote: > well, the simple ASCII text isn't the problem. its the interface over which I > am viewing it (ssh using vt200). every time I navigate up or down in a man > file, the session redraws the screen and that forces the screen reader to read > from the first line or simply read the last line (whichis the "--more:" at the > bottom). that and some of the extended attributes (bold face, etc.) may not be > read correctly by the screen reader on my end of the ssh session. -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
