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From: Hamish Moffatt
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:00

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Sunday September 01 1996 14:17, freemant@wr.com.au wrote:

 > There is any man page viewer that is better than xman and man?
 > In particular one that supports text search within a man page?

man(1) supports searching if you set it to use a decent pager. On Slackware it 
defaults to less, which means you can search with the / key. On Debian it 
defaults to more, but you can set your PAGER environment variable to less and 
it'll support this too.

hamish

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