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Date:      Thu, 31 Oct 1996 03:12:37 -0500
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To:        Royce Tidwell <roycet@airmail.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: man page woes... 
Message-ID:  <5618.846749557@orion.webspan.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Oct 1996 23:38:55 GMT." <3277E70F.41C67EA6@airmail.net> 

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Royce Tidwell wrote in message ID
<3277E70F.41C67EA6@airmail.net>:
> Thanks to Doug for the info on olvwm.
> 
> Now for another problem, I had to hardboot my machine, and ever since
> then when I try to pull up any man pages, I get less : not found.  I
> looked for less and couldn't find it.  I think it's supposed to be in
> /usr/bin.  
> 
> Anyway, without man pages I'm afraid I'm sunk.  Is there any way I could
> just get the less command?  I looked in the src directory and couldn't
> find any source either.

Check that you don't have `setenv PAGER less' in one of your shell
setup files. man certainly doesn't use `less' by default on any
FreeBSD release I'm familiar with

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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