On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, bvjsales wrote:

> Ulrich wrote:
> 
> >I installed the man package and can access it now. I also found the
> >'adduser' related page, but: How do I stop the scrolldown (the F15=Pause key
> >on my extended keyboard is disabled, obviously)? I got the advice to use
> >that key from the FreeBSD docs. Actually, when I do 'cat adduser.8' I only
> >can read the last page . . .
> 
> IF the manual page does not diplay in 'pages' for some reason (it usually
> shows one screenful and waits - afaik), I think you can pipe the output
> through 'more' to stop text scrolling out of site for any screen output.
> You will be able to read the screen a 'page' at a time.

I doubt that will help. man should be effectivly using more anyway. I bet
the terminal type is messed up...

> for example:
> 
> man adduser | more
> ps -aux | more
> ls -l |more
> 
> to see the next page just hit the 'return key' to scroll down line by line or
> use 'control d' to scroll down a couple of paragraphs. I don't know how to
> scroll up

'b' usually works.

> I know that in X, scrolling is allowed within the manual pages using the UP
> DN arrow keys as long as you do not scroll past the last line in the 'page'.
> 
> To add a user:
> 
> Try using the " addnerd " utility for 95% automated setup of 'user/nerd'
> accounts

[snip]

> ===================
> In my case 'addnerd' did not launch even though it is in my PATH so,

?? What error message did you get?

> if addnerd does not launch from its $PREFIX/bin or $PREFIX/sbin location
> you may circumvent by making an alias to it

If it's in your PATH, it should work...

> I prefer to add aliases from the root directory so

This doesn't matter as aliases, in this case, are shell constructs, not
files.

> cd /
> alias addnerd $PREFIX/bin/addnerd
> - note - you can change the alias to 'adduser' if you like
> 
> Hope this helps a bit,
> ***any corrections are welcome :-)

Take care,

Bill