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.
>
If I remember correctly, this is a deficiency of more wrt pipes. You can
correct this in several ways. The simplest is to set PAGER equal to less.
Less does not have this problem and is, over all, a better pager than
more. Try it, you'll like it!
Luck,
Dwarf
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