From: Derek Lewis <lewisd@...00f.net>
Date: 2003-12-18T04:09:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Thomas Adam wrote:

>  --- 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

Yeah, I just wanted to make sure whoever implements this pager
functionality (Dave?) knows about /usr/bin/pager, as well as PAGER.
:)


Derek Lewis

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