[forgot to reply to list; sorry about that]
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Well, that's not a full bug report, since man uses a cached cat page if
it's present. So, unless your system doesn't have the cat directories,
you need to run "man -c" to force regeneration of cat pages. That said, I
confirm that "MANWIDTH=20 man -c man" still produces an 80-column manpage.
But then, hey, it doesn't work on Linux (RedHat 9) either. We must be
misreading the man manpage. :-)
Igor
I tried man on my SuSE 9.1 Linux and it (1) follows the size of the xterm automatically and (2) follows the $MANWIDTH directive as well.
R
Thanks to all of you for your help! I'm thinking about taking a hack at the 'man' source some time soon, but I also am not much of a C programmer, so I don't expect to make any real headway. Might be fun, though.
On the other hand, I note that the 'man' on one of the systems at work
does respect both $MANWIDTH ('MANWIDTH=20 man -c man') and the width of
the terminal window (xterm, bash, cmd.exe). On that system, 'uname -a' says:Linux (host) 2.4.25-grsec #4 Thu Mar 25 01:15:52 EST 2004 i686 unknown
and 'man -v' says 'man' is version 1.5j there.
I was told that that machine was running Red Hat 7.3, but I'm not certain about that and I don't know how much it helps anyway; I may see about obtaining sources and maybe something can be figured out.
Anyway, thanks again for the information and also for giving me time to explain what I ought to've made clearer in my first email.
-- Aaron
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