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 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 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 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 > >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to multiple recipients, use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy). Remove addresses from a forwarded message body before clicking Send.