First Job

Dazed_75 lthielster at gmail.com
Wed Aug 28 15:48:23 MST 2013


try man -P cat man

where you are looking at the man page for man.  Maybe you can feed that to
a braille reader if you need to do more.


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:40 PM, eric oyen <eric.oyen at gmail.com> wrote:

> there is still the problem of the one line at the bottom of the terminal
> window that doesn't move. it causes the cursor on my braille sense U2 to
> end there instead of reading the rest of the page beyond that point without
> manually scrolling up and back with the arrow keys on a regular keyboard. I
> have also encountered this issue when reading long text files using more or
> less.
>
> -eric
>
> On Aug 27, 2013, at 4:16 PM, JD Austin wrote:
>
> > You can change the man pager with the man -P <command> directive.
> > eg: man -P more less
> >
> > Find a file reader in linux you like better and then alias it to man:
> > alias man='man -P more'
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:07 PM, eric oyen <eric.oyen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> such ideas are often born of necessity. In my case, I need to be able to
> >> read man pages and they don't quite read right with a screen reader.
> >>
> >> -eric
> >>
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