Re: [Groff] Unix Man Pages

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Colin,

> > > I noticed man pages often wrap to the width of the terminal.  Can
> > > I set the line width somehow by stuffing the right number into
> > > some environment variable?
> > 
> > Not if you want it to be portable.
> 
> For Unix in general this is true. If you're on a recentish GNU/Linux
> distribution then MANWIDTH should work; it's supported compatibly by
> both man implementations.

I agree about MANWIDTH.  But John did ask for a `cross *nix way' and
there's enough Unixes about to have one that doesn't support MANWIDTH.

Cheers,


Ralph.