Re: Debian 1.1 man & more

["N. Salwen" <salwen@phys2.harvard.edu>]

Guy Maor 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'.

I tried this both man and more on my slackware system at home and they
both go backwards.  I don't have the PAGER variable set.

I realize this is slackware but I am surprised at the difference.