Re: man is using gxditview

[John Bagdanoff <bagdanof@home.com>]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
> try setting the environmental variable PAGER to less or set MANOPT to
> -P less.  read man man

Thanks Patrick

Can you tell me the verbatim commands to do the above?  And do I do this as
user?

As root, I have no problems with man in console mode, but as user, this
is the message I get:
Error: Can't open display:
man: command exited with status 256: /usr/bin/zsoelim
'/tmp/zmanLTXGSK' | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -TX100

In X, gxditview just comes up empty. Then, when I exit gxditview, I
get this:
man: command exited with status 256: /usr/bin/zsoelim
'/tmp/zmanLTXGSK' | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -TX100

PS:  This is a low priority problem, as info <subject> works, but is
there an underlying problem with my system?

John


> 
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 03:21:23AM -0700, John Bagdanoff wrote:
> > When I use man as user, it is starting up gxditview, & in console mode
> > this is not nice.  
> > 
> > I noticed this behavior a couple of weeks ago, but as yet haven't
> > found how to change it back to using less.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > John
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