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Article #215Re: PAGER variable problem
From: David Sherman
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 1985 22:49
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 1985 22:49
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In article <26000001@smu.UUCP> joe@smu.UUCP writes:
||Notes looks at the environment variable PAGER to determine
||if you want to use a different program than /usr/ucb/more to look at
||the help page. The problem is there is no way to pass parameters to
||the program. (e.g., I would like to run my own pager program, say
||page, invoking it as page -s). Has anyone fixed this?
Well, it's a kludge, but you can create your own shell file which
simply calls page -s, and make the shell file your $PAGER.
Dave Sherman
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!lsuc!dave From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Newsgroups: net.notes Subject: Re: PAGER variable problem Message-ID: <349@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Feb-85 17:49:22 EST Article-I.D.: lsuc.349 Posted: Sun Feb 3 17:49:22 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Feb-85 21:42:57 EST References: <26000001@smu.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 14 Summary: create a file which calls page -s