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Re: ox2 and more

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Feb 5 12:33:22 1996

To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Feb 1996 03:12:57 EST."
             <199602030812.DAA29706@lola-granola.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 12:33:11 EST
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>


>The "ox2" program in the oed locker in most cases invokes
>/mit/oed/scripts/ox2driver, which changes the users' default pager
>(via means of the PAGER environment variable) to "more", and then runs
>ox2.

>        Don't set the MORE or LESS environment variables, and if the
>        PAGER environment variable is not set, set it to the
>        appropriate invokation of more (eg: "more -sf")/

I think it's better to set a default pager so I changed the script to
implement this way of doing it, as you suggested. 

                                              A. 

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