Addressed to: Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Debian <[email protected]>
** Reply to note from Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 22 Mar 1998
23:41:26 -0600 (CST)
>
>
> Some wonderful developer(s) fixed our manpage readers of
> the coming release (hamm) so that they will also scroll upwards
> to the beginning of any file we read. The manpages (accessed
> by typing "man nameofcommand"--without the quotes) can also be
> searched with the "/" foreslash command in the "hamm" version.
> Excellent work...
You could also use:
man <program name> | less
What *really* puzzles me as a newcomer to the linux (debian) arena is why
using less (or anything else that could backscroll and do searches) hasn't
been made the ruddy default right from the begining. I have shaken my head
in bemusement and frustration over this and the archaic wordstar text
processors that seem to be included as default with more than one
application I have here on my Debian CD.
(one newbie user who is looking forward to a new stable debian release that
hopely won't include such obvious archiac software)
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