ISC 3.2

[Brandon Brown]

andyb at stb.info.com (Andy B.) writes:

>I can't seem to figure out how to make man use a pager.
>I tried "setenv PAGER /usr/bin/more"  in the csh, but that
>did not work.

>How is this done?  I'm tired of typing "man something | more".
>I shouldn't need to pipe it to more.  Thanks for the insights!

The "man" program is just a shell script. I think all you need to do
is edit /usr/bin/man and stick "more", or "pg", or whatever in the
variable "post"....


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