also sprach David Lichteblau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.18.1139 +0200]: > Only if standard output is a TTY. Otherwise it prints directly to the fd. > > Try > ldapvi --help > compared to > ldapvi --help | cat > > In what situation do you have a TTY on stdout and cannot run a pager?
This is totally backwards. Unix tools (other than man) don't use pagers under any other circumstances than when the user told the shell to connect a pager to stdout. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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