On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:38 -0600, "David J. Weller-Fahy" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` > > not to automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking > > for a fairly easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve > > internal gymnastics I may not be willing to perform. > > Set the 'columns' attribute of your tty: > > stty columns 60 > man xxx > > This should do it.
*Should*? You posted without trying it? (I tried, did not work). -- David Kelly N4HHE, [email protected] ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
