Re: Exiting man pages display

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

Thomas E. Dodd /CSDC wrote:
> Kevin Colby wrote:
> >
> > 'man' is actually 'less', which is actually modeled on 'more'.
> 
> man is a program. A close approximation would be:
> 
> search $MANPATH for the command and set $MANFILE
> nroff -man $MANFILE |$PAGER

Hm.  I stand corrected, apparently.

I was under the impression that the Linux implementation of man
was really using nroff and less behind the scenes.  I suppose
not everyone would install nroff though, so that wouldn't work
very well.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com