Re: Things I miss from Slackware - Could I implement this in my Debian system?

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

Hi,

Have you tried command

    eval `resize`

before running man.

Note that the quotes need to be ` not '. I have found this useful when there's 
trouble with the size of the xterm.

Andy Mortimer wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
> 
> > man : 
> > How can I change the behaviour of man to do:
> > 
> >   1: Adjust itself to the screen size in console and Xterm. It seems
> >      to be 80 chars wide even when I run SVGATextMode and get 132x60.
> 
> I have no idea about this one, but do let me know if you find out, as
> it's a problem I have as well!

// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen                  * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland



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