How does man know?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <592 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  And guess what? It *is* convenient to have it work that way.

No, it isn't.  One can easily add pagination in those cases where it
is desired, but it's much more difficult to defeat wired-in pagination
in those cases where it isn't desired.

Consider "man whatever > /dev/tty_printer".  Why should that try to
paginate?