Things I miss from Slackware - Could I implement this in my Debian system?

1997-04-25 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi. I moved from Slackware to Debian, but there's a couple of things I have not been able to figure out yet: man : How can I change the behaviour of man to do: 1: Adjust itself to the screen size in console and Xterm. It seems to be 80 chars wide even

Re: Things I miss from Slackware - Could I implement this in my Debian system?

1997-04-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi! first of all, all three things are possible afaik. > 1: Adjust itself to the screen size in console and Xterm. It seems > to be 80 chars wide even when I run SVGATextMode and get 132x60. I remember that I have encountered a similar problem but vice versa. I found out (or ... hmm... I

Re: Things I miss from Slackware - Could I implement this in my Debian system?

1997-04-25 Thread Andy Mortimer
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Hi. > > I moved from Slackware to Debian, but there's a couple of things I > have not been able to figure out yet: > > man : > How can I change the behaviour of man to do: > > 1: Adjust itself to the screen size in console and Xterm. It se

Re: Things I miss from Slackware - Could I implement this in my Debian system?

1997-04-25 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Hi, Have you tried command eval `resize` before running man. Note that the quotes need to be ` not '. I have found this useful when there's trouble with the size of the xterm. Andy Mortimer wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > > > man : > > How can I change th

Re: Things I miss from Slackware - Could I implement this in my Debian system?

1997-04-25 Thread Jim Smith
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hi. > > I moved from Slackware to Debian, but there's a couple of things I > have not been able to figure out yet: > > > 2: Adjust the colors used. From what I remember, the Slackware used > green on keywords, and

Re: Things I miss from Slackware - Could I implement this in my Debian system?

1997-04-25 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: > > 2: Adjust the colors used. From what I remember, the Slackware used > > green on keywords, and white on err... filnames? (The colors > > aren't that important, but it _did_ improve readability. > > This is one problem which stops me from