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variable, and will use the pager defined by this variable. Many people prefer

less to more as far as pagers are concerned, they think less is better than more.

(Dwarf agrees: less is more) If you only wish to set this for your own account,

add the following lines to /.bash profile:

PAGER=less

export PAGER

and the next time you login man will use less as the pager.

Additional info

All GNU software provides its documentation in the info format. This is

normally a different format from the man page, and uses a  menu  feature

to allow pages of related material to be  linked  together, allowing cross 

references to be placed with a page to provide broader discussion of the various

topics. The info command will also display the man page if there is no index

to the keyword you supply. For instance:

info lpc

will simply display the man page for the lpc program in much the same way

that man did earlier. On the other hand, if the command had been:

info diff

The format of the info page for diff will be printed to the screen. q will

exit info, and the man command with diff as the argument, will display the

man page for diff, which you will see is quite different. Some folks like the

terse structure found in man pages, while others like the expansive discussion

provided by the info pages. Debian provides for both types of individual by

providing both whenever possible.