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how to make man page not disappear on exit

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...probably a silly question but I could not beat google into telling me the answer so posting here: I got 2 machines - Slackware 13 and Fedora 11. On the slack machine, when I use man I can scroll all the way to the bottom then exit man and the info stays in my terminal window (which I find very cā€¦

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uses to display the man page. It is that is causing the behaviour you are seeing. One way to get around this is to set the environment variable to something like e.g. try:

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