Guy Maor wrote >> While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page >> by using "b" or "^B". Has anyone else experienced this? My current >> version of man is 2.3.10-11. If I just use "more" to read a text file, >> everything works fine. > >more can't go backwards on unseekable files, like pipes for example. >(man pipes the data out to the viewer so it'll start up faster.) > >less doesn't have this deficiency. Use it with man by setting the >PAGER environment variable to `less'.
I tried this both man and more on my slackware system at home and they both go backwards. I don't have the PAGER variable set. I realize this is slackware but I am surprised at the difference.
