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Re: Getting man pages in color



Hi,

* Micha Feigin <michf@math.tau.ac.il> [030730 09:49]:
> How do I get man pages to show in color?
> used to have it on mandrake at one of the workplaces but never figured
> out how to enable it under debian.

As others had said you were probably using most as your default pager.
Now you just need to know how to set _your_ pager (not the system
default).

If using csh:

setenv PAGER most

in your .cshrc

If using sh, bash, zsh etc

PAGER=most ; export $PAGER

in your .bashrc or .whateverrc

Nick.

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Debian testing/unstable
Linux twofish 2.6.0-test1-looxt93c6 #1 Thu Jul 17 16:49:12 JST 2003



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