From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 19 07:08:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A66C337B401 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 07:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5C143FB1 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 07:08:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <2003051914085500200hf2fle>; Mon, 19 May 2003 14:08:55 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h4JE8sYt026940; Mon, 19 May 2003 10:08:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h4JE8sMN026937; Mon, 19 May 2003 10:08:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: Robert Storey References: <20030519153402.22ac5d71.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> <20030519081717.GS77354@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030519211845.3c614c69.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 19 May 2003 10:08:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030519211845.3c614c69.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Message-ID: <4465o7vxjd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Emacs weirdness at console X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 14:08:57 -0000 Robert Storey writes: > I installed "most" (from the ports collection), a much more colorful pager > for man pages than plain old "more." I figured out that I can use "most" > as a pager by doing this: > > man -P most > > The question is: how can I set "most" to be my default pager so I don't > have to type "-P most"? set the PAGER variable to point to it. This is mentioned prominently in the man page for man itself, and will work for most other programs that use a pager as well. > I haven't yet found a FBSD equivalent to the Linux "Cryptoapi" program, > which allows one to encrypt a partition. Does anything like this exist > yet? There are some things in the ports that look like they'll do this. > I'm still looking for a way to share a partition (on the same hard drive) > with Linux so I can exchange data - maybe that isn't possible. Doesn't > seem that FreeBSD supports ext2, and Linux doesn't support UFS. As far as > I know, the only way to exchange data is to use a second machine on the > network. a) FreeBSD has mount_ext2fs(8). b) Most Linux distributions include some UFS support, as I understand it. c) Although neither of the above are terribly dependable for heavy writing on the non-native filesystem, sharing via a third, MS-type filesystem tends to be a good solution for lots of people.