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Date:      Fri, 3 Nov 2000 07:42:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
To:        James A Wilde <james.wilde@tbv.se>
Cc:        Send to questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: man displays bytes
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011030734340.2037-100000@genisis.istar.ca>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBLHNJHLFCJGCBFDKIGEDCCCAA.james.wilde@tbv.se>

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On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, James A Wilde wrote:

> This is new - to me - since I installed 4.1.
> 
> Suddenly man displays bytes displayed instead of per cent displayed.  I
> can't find a switch in man man and I can't find references to this in the
> mailing list - probably wrong choice of search parameters.
> 
> Can someone help please?

Sure. FreeBSD's pager changed from "more" to "less" with 4.1. There's a
mention of it in the Release Notes for 4.1. Check out the following:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/10/11/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=2
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.1R/notes.html

Cheers,

Dru



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