This is an ancient issue; see bug #25410. Luckily there's been some talk on -devel about fixing it.
brian
David B. Harris wrote:
> To quote Marcial Zamora III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[...]
> > the man page only takes up half of the width of the
> > terminal..
[...]
> I'm actually curious about this too :) Never did think to ask, though ;)
