The 'bug' mentioned in 'more' when used with man pages is IMHO not a
bug. More does 'back-scroll' when viewing man pages because it is not
possible to 'back-scroll' a pipe. 'Less' does not 'show' this
characteristic behaviour of pipes because less creates its' own buffer
containing the entire contents of the pipe. The man pages are run
through a filter/formatter and then piped to a pager.
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best,
-bill
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