Re: Debian 1.1 man & more

[Richard Lovison <rlovison@plato.simons-rock.edu>]

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