Re: man, oh man
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:00:23PM -0400, Mike M wrote:
> 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.
Did you run tasksel on the workstation machine? Tasksel (even if you
don't check any of the boxes) will install less, among other things.
With less, man output is not piped through more. Without less (on your
minimal system) it is...
HTH, David
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