From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 23:36:26 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA29423 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 23:36:26 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA29370 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 23:35:52 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA04476; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 16:03:08 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199508250633.QAA04476@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Changing pager for man pages globally To: freyes@i-2000.com Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 16:03:07 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9508250334.AA23813@i-2000.com> from "Francisco Reyes" at Aug 24, 95 11:32:04 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1093 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Francisco Reyes stands accused of saying: > > I have been reading the man pages on how to change the pager > and I have not been able to find how to change them > GLOBALLY. By globally what I mean is that it takes effect to > all user. > > I found it on Linux at work since the man pages indicated > which file contained this, but I have not been able to find this > on FreeBsd. The manual page states it clearly : man uses 'more -cs' unless the PAGER environment variable is set. In your system-wide shell startup files (/etc/profile, /etc/cshrc), set the PAGER variable appropriately. This allows users to override the setting in their local configuration files if they don't like your choice. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[