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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:08:45 -0500
From: Aaron Miller <amiller AT connext DOT net>
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To: Raye Raskin <rayer AT pobox DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be
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Raye Raskin wrote:
>> Hi! I've just been installing Cygwin on a new machine and getting 
>> everything into the shape I like it, but there's something I can't 
>> seem to figure out how to fix.
>>
>> I'm running XWin all the time so I can use xterms, but manual pages 
>> seem to get formatted to 80 columns wide no matter how wide my xterm 
>> window is. This is, as you may imagine, somewhat irritating, and I'm 
>> at my wits' end in trying to find where to fix it.
>>
>> Has anyone any advice to offer? I'd greatly appreciate it.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -- Aaron
> 
> 
> Try making your font smaller so the man page width still fits your
> narrow xterm.
> 

Thanks, but that's the exact backwards of what I'm looking for; I 
could've been clearer in my original message. The command line with 
which I start my usual xterm sets it to 120 columns, and I frequently 
size it up from there. This seems to be the usual mode of operation 
under Unix; for example, when I've ssh'd into a Linux box from a Cygwin 
xterm, manual pages are formatted to the terminal width instead of a 
hard eighty(ish) columns.

Thanks again.

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