Thread: [Announce] Enhanced BusyBox package
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reinob is offline reinob
2013-03-22 , 11:38
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#368
Originally Posted by iDont View Post
What you need to do to get BusyBox' man working:
1) export MANPATH
2) install groff-base
3) copy your man pages to $MANPATH
4) export PAGER=less

You can put that in /etc/profile (or put a script on /etc/profile.d, etc.)
Otherwise man will use more. Basically man does:

zcat page.gz | gtbl | nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc 2>&1 | $PAGER

where PAGER is "more" if undefined. However busybox's "more" behaves weird (or perhaps it's libvte's fault, I use the one from CSSU). less works much better, and is more comfortable to use.
 

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