Re: misc/46185: man pages fail in single user mode

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/46185; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: misc/46185: man pages fail in single user mode
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:28:35 +0000

 On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 04:05:04PM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
  >  The other difference is that the pager will not display the position in
  >  the man page correctly:
  >  
  >     --More--(9%)
  >  
  >  becomes:
  >  
  >     --More--(byte 1086)
  >  
  >  Not a big deal, IMHO.
 
 No, but that's the kind of small thing that some people (possibly
 including me) are bound to find intensely irritating.
 
 Probably the best place to fix this particular problem is in less
 though.
 
  >  If we make this optional, I'd argue for pipe-mode as default.
 
 I'm not so sure...
 
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 David A. Holland
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