From: Derek Lewis <lewisd@...00f.net>
Date: 2003-12-18T04:11:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Jamis Buck wrote:
>
> I've got a gentoo system, and 'man man' says this:
>
> MANPAGER
>     If MANPAGER is set, its value is used as the name of the program to
> use  to  display  the  man page.  If not, then PAGER is used. If that
> has no value either, /usr/bin/less -is is used.

Interesting.  So there's apparantly no consistant way of finding a pager
program.

Somehow I'm not the least bit suprised. :)

Derek Lewis

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