Re: A better man?

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From: Steve Merrifield
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 00:00

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Kent Tong (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?
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I've got my PAGER environment variable set to /usr/bin/less, which 
allows me to use all the less commands when reading a man page.
For example, 1G to go to the top, G to go to the bottom, / to
search for a string, and so on....

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From: sjm@ee.latrobe.edu.au (Steve Merrifield)
Subject: Re: A better man?
Date: 1996/09/02
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