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Re: What's the best (easiest) way to view man pages?
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- Subject: Re: What's the best (easiest) way to view man pages?
- From: vischne at ibm dot net
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 16:12:05 GMT
> Mark Hadfield (m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz)
>
>Tim Fisher wrote:
>
>>I was hoping there might be either a version of man that doesn't depend on
>>less, or maybe some other program I've never heard of that can read
>>man-format files (and display them properly). Since I've never actually
>seen
>>a version of man that didn't' use more/less, I'm not real optimistic on
>that
>>one. I have a feeling man will never work right until less works right.
>
>I use man2html:
>
I don't know what you are talking about. I compiled less under b18, and
it works better than less under Linux. No problem whatever. Are you
using the right curses/ncurses/slangcurses library?
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