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

[Scott Stevens]

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:57:33 -0800
"Nick Schmalenberger" <nschmalenberger@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 

My suggestion, since the original comment is about sizing the pages in an Xterm, would be to use Xman.  Nice man pages, indexed and browsable by section, nice sized window in X to contain the pages.