[Suns-at-Home] xterm number of columns when performing man pages display

[Nick Schmalenberger]

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:30:56 -0600, "Eugene Work0" <ework0@gmail.com>
said:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for your soon response, but,
> 
> I regret to inform you that your workaround doesn't work.
> 
> I am able to perform stty -a command and change columns to  192, for
> example, but I still see 80 columns when I perform the man page on a
> xterm window.
> 
> I am using xterm because it's faster than JDS gnome-terminal. I use
> man pages actively, but this 80 columns limitation is pretty annoy.
> 
> 
> Any other workaround ?
In Debian GNU/Linux this happens when the man pages are prerendered,
which is an option in the configuration of the man page system. See if
you can configure man page rendering in Solaris.
Nick

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