Bug#735589: man-db: Allow MANPAGER to take pipes

2022-10-17 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Peng Yu , 2014-01-16 11:43: The man page for man says that "MANPAGER ... may not use pipes to connect multiple commands". I think that this is an inconvenient restriction. And it seems that man on Mac OS X does not have such a restriction. This restriction is also inconsistent with POSIX¹,

Bug#735589: man-db: Allow MANPAGER to take pipes

2014-01-16 Thread Peng Yu
Package: man-db Version: 2.6.5-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The man page for man says that MANPAGER ... may not use pipes to connect multiple commands. I think that this is an inconvenient restriction. And it seems that man on Mac OS X does not have such a restriction. I'm wondering