On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly <dke...@hiwaay.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> 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. > > *Should*? You posted without trying it? (I tried, did not work).
'Should' as in "I tried it here and it worked". I'm running a recent CURRENT snapshot, but I don't think this affects the results. What does 'stty -a' show in your terminal? What is your shell's environment (e.g. the value of COLUMNS)? What is your PAGER? etc. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
