10-15-2001
Pager, not man....man
Well,
You have hit upon one of the neat parts of unix, the use of your environment variables to do things that make life easier, without you knowing. The reason man paginates your man pages is because your variable for PAGER is set. You can unset this, and the pages will FLY by you. You could also set it to whatever you like as a pager (pg, more, less, etc.), then it will use that program to paginate whatever you use as a command that has output that reads the PAGER var and paginates output.
I know this isn't exactly what you wanted, but there it is...
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
catman
CATMAN(1) BSD General Commands Manual CATMAN(1)
NAME
catman -- preformat man pages
SYNOPSIS
catman [-fLnrv] [directories ...]
DESCRIPTION
The catman utility preformats all the man pages in directories using the nroff -man command. Directories may be separated by colons instead
of spaces. If no directories are specified, the contents of the MANPATH environment variable is used, or if that is not set, the default
directory /usr/share/man is processed.
The options are as follows:
-f Force all man pages to be reformatted even if the corresponding cat page is newer.
-L Process only localized subdirectories corresponding to the locale specified in the standard environment variables.
-n Print out what would be done instead of performing any formatting.
-r Scan for and remove ``junk'' files that are neither man pages nor their corresponding formatted cat pages.
-v Cause catman to be more verbose about what it is doing.
ENVIRONMENT
LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG
These variables control what subdirectories will be processed if the -L option is used.
MACHINE If set, overrides the current machine type when searching for machine specific man page subdirectories.
MACHINE_ARCH
If set, overrides the current architecture when searching for architecture specific man page subdirectories.
MANPATH Determines the set of directories to be processed if none are given on the command line.
FILES
/usr/share/man Default directory to process if the MANPATH environment variable is not set.
EXIT STATUS
The catman utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
makewhatis(1), man(1), nroff(1)
HISTORY
A previous version of the catman command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.
AUTHORS
John Rochester
BSD
December 3, 2005 BSD