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Re: man beeps more than woman



On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:36:55PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> 
> > Why is it that the alias won't be picked up by man? 
> 
> Because man seems to be calling pager directly, which is a link to less.
> There is no shell in between to do alias expansion, and if there were one,
> it would not match the alias to expand.
> 
Oh right.  Since argv[0] is pager.

Regards,

-Roberto

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