From: Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@...>
Date: 2003-12-18T04:00:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

 --- Derek Lewis <lewisd@f00f.net> wrote: > 
> Just a note about PAGER.  Some systems (both my Debian installs, for
> example) don't define PAGER or READER, but use a symlink named 'pager'.
> It may be useful somehow to check for all of those.
> 
> My (Debian) "man man" says:
> 
> PAGER     If $PAGER is set, its value is used as the name of the
>     program used to display the manual page.  By default, exec
>     /usr/bin/pager -s is used.
> 
> A SuSe system here at work has the exact paragraph, so I assume it's
> some
> sort of standard behavior.

On my Debian System (Sid), one can do:

update-alternatives --config pager

to redefine it.

-- Thomas Adam

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