man, oh man

[Mike M <linux-support@earthlink.net>]

I've installed some minimal stable configurations lately (answered no to 
tasksel and dselect during installation of bf24).  When I run "man" on the 
minimal system, it's like the output is piped to "more".  In a workstation 
installation machine,  running man results in a environment similar to 
running "vi -R".  The same version of man is being run on both systems.  

I skimmed this (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Man-Page/index.html) and found 
no explanation for the different behaviour.

I could use some help in understanding how the different man behaviors exist.

Thanks,
-- 
Mike M.