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Article #57767Re: A better man?
From: John Foster
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 00:00
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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? > > Thanks! > --- > Kent Tong > Freeman Installer ==> http://www.netnet.net/users/freeman/ 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! John Foster
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