Back-page will not work when "more" is being fed by a pipe. This may be the case with "man". Perhaps it's doing something like "colcrt|more" to display the page. Bruce -- -- Attention Radio Amateurs: For information on "Linux for Hams", -- read the WWW page http://www.hams.com/LinuxForHams, -- or e-mail the word "help" to info@hams.com