Re: A better man?

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From: Rabelais editors
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:00

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John Foster (jfoster@davros.eas.gu.edu.au) wrote:
: Kent Tong 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?
: > 

: I could be off here, but i thought that the search capabilities in man
: came from the pager used. Just make sure that you have 
: PAGER=/bin/less
: or whatever is appropriate. In the case of less, / starts a search.

: Then again, I could be wrong and often am!
Note that PAGER may be set either in your environment (setenv & friends) or
the man config file, /usr/lib/man.config
JP

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Date: 1996/09/05
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