[Suns-at-Home] Re: Suns-at-Home digest, Vol 1 #453 - 1 msg

[don]

I think you will find that the man page formats were set back in the early 
1970's, when everything was based on an 80 column card format.  Terminals 
were also 80 columns wide, so man pages were formatted to fit nicely on this 
size screen.  I think you will find, that if you cut your window down to 
less than 80 columns wide, the man pages will be truncated and not wrap 
around.

Don
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> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:17:55 -0600
> From: "Eugene Work0" <ework0@gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Suns-at-Home] xterm number of columns when performing man pages 
> display
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> Hello,
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> Solaris 10 (SPARC), running JDS, I run xterm but, when I use man
> command, for example, I can't see the text across the wide terminal,
> it's limit to 80 columns.
>
> My default shell is bash, I use the a wide resolution (exploting xvr
> 1000 capabilities), and the command: export COLUMNS=100 doesn't
> help. I don't know if I have to deal with tic or termcap files, I was
> not lucky changing (the behavoir of the) pager neither.
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> Any workaround ?
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> Thanks,
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