Re: Debian 1.1 man & more
On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Richard Lovison wrote:
> While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page
> by using "b" or "^B". Has anyone else experienced this? My current
> version of man is 2.3.10-11. If I just use "more" to read a text file,
> everything works fine.
more can't go backwards on unseekable files, like pipes for example.
(man pipes the data out to the viewer so it'll start up faster.)
less doesn't have this deficiency. Use it with man by setting the
PAGER environment variable to `less'.
Guy
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