Mail pager (fwd)

[Derek Martin]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, John Abreau wrote:

> 
> in using berkely Mail on ultrix and irix in years gone by, i was always
> able to export PAGER=less to use for paging through Mail.  in linux,
> that seems not to work, though the man pages suggest that it should.
> the action seems to be cat, not more or less, regardless of the settings.
> i tried setting PAGER in .mailrc but that didn't help.  have i missed
> something i should have known?
> 
> TIA, dan

Try adding the option "crt" to your mailrc file, or to /etc/mail.rc and
you should be all set.

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