Re: Debian 1.1 man & more
On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
> 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".
>
> 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.)
Hmmm. If my memory serves me right I was able to do this on my old
Slackware setup and I am currently able to do this on my provider's system
which is running System V Release 4.0. BTW, this is not a complaint,
just a statement indicating my confusion and ignorance. :)
> less doesn't have this deficiency. Use it with man by setting the
> PAGER environment variable to `less'.
I'll do this. Thanks for the help. ----Richard
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