On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:38 -0600, "David J. Weller-Fahy" <dave-lists-freebsd-questi...@weller-fahy.com> wrote: > To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to > automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly > easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve internal > gymnastics I may not be willing to perform.
Set the 'columns' attribute of your tty:
stty columns 60
man xxx
This should do it.
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