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Date:      Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:10:02 -0700
From:      Chris Stankevitz <cstankevitz@toyon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G
Message-ID:  <4AD56B3A.4070905@toyon.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091014014947.GA13021@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
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Bill Campbell wrote:
> The -e and -E options to less control this.  You want neither of
> these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit
> at end-of-file.  The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the second
> time it hits eof while ``-E'' exits the first time.

Bill,

Thank you for your explanation.  I hope to find that my PAGER 
environment variable is "less -E".  If so, I will drop the -E.

Chris




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