[lug] Debian man pages

[Paul E Condon]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:01:43PM +0200, rm at fabula.de wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:49:42PM +0200, rm at fabula.de wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:36:42PM -0600, Jason Davis wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >  When I view a man page in Debian , The man page is viewed then I'm
> > > dropped back out to my shell. I don't have to hit "q" to quit and i cant
> > > scroll around... anyone know why this happens.
> > 
> > What's the current setting for your pager? Do a 
> > 
> >  ls -la /etc/alternatives/pager
> > 
> > Does this point to /bin/less or /bin/more ?
> 
> In case you need to modify this:
> 
>  # update-alternatives --list pager
> 
> will list all available pager programs known to the Debian system.
> 
>  # update-alternatives --set pager /usr/bin/less
> 
> will set the system wide pager to /usr/bin/less (not a bad choice).
> You need to be root to do this.
> 
> 
While you're checking, check out 'most'. most is an improvement on less.
It is available as a debian package.

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Paul E Condon           
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