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Re: Sun precompiled version invokes 'less'
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John Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: Sun precompiled version invokes 'less' |
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Tue, 05 Oct 93 11:51:20 EDT |
: It seems that the precompiled SunOS version of octave
: invokes the program 'less' for the help function.
: Is there a way to change this behavior, by using an
: environment variable?
Octave uses the following variables in order until it finds one that
is not empty:
* The builtin variable PAGER
* The environment variable PAGER
* The compiled in default pager
It will also work for PAGER to specify a pipeline of commands.
Octave uses less as the default because it can page backward when
reading from a pipe. I find this to be very useful, and something
that most versions of more cannot do.
jwe