On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Richard Lovison wrote: > > > While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page > > by using "b" or "^B". > > more can't go backwards on unseekable files, like pipes for example. > (man pipes the data out to the viewer so it'll start up faster.) Hmmm. If my memory serves me right I was able to do this on my old Slackware setup and I am currently able to do this on my provider's system which is running System V Release 4.0. BTW, this is not a complaint, just a statement indicating my confusion and ignorance. :)
> less doesn't have this deficiency. Use it with man by setting the > PAGER environment variable to `less'. I'll do this. Thanks for the help. ----Richard
