Linux Useablity

Leo J Mauler webgiant at juno.com
Sat Feb 28 13:35:37 CST 2004


On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:40:37 -0600 "Brian Densmore"
<DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com> writes:
> Oh yeah and while we're ranting, what's with the man page on
> tethereal? YIKES! How many pages is it? I gave up after about
> 30,000 lines. While I'm on the subject of man pages, anyone know
> how to navigate in them other than up/down/scroll xx lines? I 
> suppose it's a vi interface? God, I hate vi! I need a beer.

Aren't man pages rendered in TeX or LaTeX?  Seems to me converting them
into a different layout format would be in order (or using some TeX/LaTeX
viewer with more options than "more" or "less").

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