Uh, oh........... I opened up ~/.bashrc and found: alias man='man -TX100 That's what was making man call gxditview (which is part of groff). I dont remember adding that alias in there. Must have been stoned. :)
So, Patrick, sorry to bother you, but I now know alot more about environmental variables, how man works & set. embarrassingly yours, John On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 03:05:12PM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > in ~/.bashrc add the following line > > export PAGER=less > > when man is invoked it checks the value of PAGER to determine which > pager to use. i'm not familiar with gxditview, if this is giving you > problems and you really don't need this program, get rid of it. > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:27:23AM -0700, John Bagdanoff wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 11:08:34AM -0400, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > > > try setting the environmental variable PAGER to less or set MANOPT to > > > -P less. read man man > > > > Thanks Patrick > > > > Can you tell me the verbatim commands to do the above? And do I do this as > > user? > > > > As root, I have no problems with man in console mode, but as user, this > > is the message I get: > > Error: Can't open display: > > man: command exited with status 256: /usr/bin/zsoelim > > '/tmp/zmanLTXGSK' | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -TX100 > > > > In X, gxditview just comes up empty. Then, when I exit gxditview, I > > get this: > > man: command exited with status 256: /usr/bin/zsoelim > > '/tmp/zmanLTXGSK' | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -TX100 > > > > PS: This is a low priority problem, as info <subject> works, but is > > there an underlying problem with my system? > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 03:21:23AM -0700, John Bagdanoff wrote: > > > > When I use man as user, it is starting up gxditview, & in console mode > > > > this is not nice. > > > > > > > > I noticed this behavior a couple of weeks ago, but as yet haven't > > > > found how to change it back to using less. > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > > > John > > > > -- > > > > ************************ > > > > Using Linux > > > > ************************ > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > "As a general rule, if you have trouble > > > with the binary system, then probably it > > > is because you do not really understand > > > the decimal system ..." > > > R.W. Hamming > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > -- > > ************************ > > Using Linux > > ************************ > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > -- > "As a general rule, if you have trouble > with the binary system, then probably it > is because you do not really understand > the decimal system ..." > R.W. Hamming > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- ************************ Using Linux ************************
