From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 17:11:32 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B021F106566C for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:11:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 265008FC0A for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:11:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Status: No X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-2.9, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, BAYES_00 -1.90) X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-ID: p0IHBDOp005835 Received: from gkeramidas-glaptop.linux.gr ([74.125.121.33]) (authenticated bits=0) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id p0IHBDOp005835 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:11:19 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20110118034037.GF90952@weller-fahy.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:11:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20110118034037.GF90952@weller-fahy.com> (David J. Weller-Fahy's message of "Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:38 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Subject: Re: How to adjust man page line length X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:11:32 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:38 -0600, "David J. Weller-Fahy" wrote: > To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to > automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly > easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve internal > gymnastics I may not be willing to perform. Set the 'columns' attribute of your tty: stty columns 60 man xxx This should do it. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk01ybEACgkQ1g+UGjGGA7bbRgCguRVnavs68eY57DbQ9BvYkd1/ WoMAoInQFUJfNK+JNAEqUSUFwmfWWmTC =Dhu/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--