On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Austin Donnelly wrote: > Those systems maybe format the manpage to a temporary file, then > use more to view that file. Debian's man put the formatted output > through a pipe directly to the pager, for speed. > > Note that you can also do: > > $ export MANOPT='-Pless' > > so that you only get less when viewing manpages, not as your default > pager (if for some reason you don't like less :)
Thanks for the education---`less' works great as the default pager. Uh oh, I feel a suggestion to a developer coming on.:) Is it possible to have `less' or `most' designed into man as the default pager so the environment variable doesn't have to be set? Is there an advantage to using `more' that I'm not aware of? ----Richard