Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxb!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!ima!inmet!tower From: tower@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.notes Subject: Re: Re: PAGER variable problem Message-ID: <1943@inmet.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 01:23:44 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1943 Posted: Thu Feb 7 01:23:44 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 01:24:46 EST Lines: 32 Nf-ID: #R:lsuc:-34900:inmet:7400004:000:1231 Nf-From: inmet!tower Feb 5 17:14:00 1985 > ***** inmet:net.notes / lsuc!dave / 9:39 pm Feb 4, 1985 > In article <26000001@smu.UUCP> joe@smu.UUCP writes: > ||Notes looks at the environment variable PAGER to determine > ||if you want to use a different program than /usr/ucb/more to look at > ||the help page. The problem is there is no way to pass parameters to > ||the program. (e.g., I would like to run my own pager program, say > ||page, invoking it as page -s). Has anyone fixed this? > > Well, it's a kludge, but you can create your own shell file which > simply calls page -s, and make the shell file your $PAGER. > Dave Sherman > {utzoo pesnta nrcaero utcs}!lsuc!dave > {allegra decvax ihnp4 linus}!utcsrgv!lsuc!dave > Non-kludge: more on 4.1BSD looks at the environment variable MORE to decide what parameters to invoke itself with. See the man page. e.g. (from my .login for my login c-shell) setenv MORE -sl setenv PAGER '/usr/ucb/more' I suspect this is true on 4.2BSD and 2.9BSD systems as well. "Oh, the nested webs we weave..." -len tower UUCP: {ihnp4,harpo}!inmet!tower Intermetrics, Inc. INTERNET: ima!inmet!tower@CCA-UNIX.ARPA USPS: 733 Concord Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA PHONE: (617) 661-1840