On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:56:52 +0200 Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote:
> It can't work when you pipe by hand. Thanks for the detailed explanation, Ingo. I wrote the simplest possible test, and it turned out to be too simple! Einstein, right? > 4. Let the man(1) steering program fork and exec less(1). I'm using NetBSD 7.0, and my /usr/bin/man doesn't work as you describe, at least not for pdksh and a few others I tried. > When stdout is not a terminal ... indexing isn't attempted, and > when called as mandoc(1) rather than man(1), it isn't at all. I'm pretty sure my man invokes mandoc as "mandoc". Would that be a problem? --jkl
