Date: 19 May 2003 10:08:54 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Emacs weirdness at console Message-ID: <4465o7vxjd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030519211845.3c614c69.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> References: <20030519153402.22ac5d71.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> <20030519081717.GS77354@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030519211845.3c614c69.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>
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Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> writes: > I installed "most" (from the ports collection), a much more colorful pager > for man pages than plain old "more." I figured out that I can use "most" > as a pager by doing this: > > man -P most <command> > > The question is: how can I set "most" to be my default pager so I don't > have to type "-P most"? set the PAGER variable to point to it. This is mentioned prominently in the man page for man itself, and will work for most other programs that use a pager as well. > I haven't yet found a FBSD equivalent to the Linux "Cryptoapi" program, > which allows one to encrypt a partition. Does anything like this exist > yet? There are some things in the ports that look like they'll do this. > I'm still looking for a way to share a partition (on the same hard drive) > with Linux so I can exchange data - maybe that isn't possible. Doesn't > seem that FreeBSD supports ext2, and Linux doesn't support UFS. As far as > I know, the only way to exchange data is to use a second machine on the > network. a) FreeBSD has mount_ext2fs(8). b) Most Linux distributions include some UFS support, as I understand it. c) Although neither of the above are terribly dependable for heavy writing on the non-native filesystem, sharing via a third, MS-type filesystem tends to be a good solution for lots of people.
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