At  02:10 PM 5/18/01, Donna Garverick wrote:
>-rw-------   1 MGR.PAR           0             10 May 18 11:07 VIn008700AC.aaa

>ok...so one's got something in it.  i do a 'cat' on it and....it says
>'NoFilename' (oh that's profound :-)

Actually, that makes me think this might be a redirected stderr from
"man".  What happens (for donna and perhaps for M.Bixby/et-al on Invent3K)
if "man" is done for something that doesn't exist?  Say "man XYZZY"?  Does
that create a file with "NoFilename" in it?

At  02:20 PM 5/18/01, Mark Klein replied:
>Actually, I think those are files for vi.

Aha!  On the other hand, Mark Klein's evidence looks very applicable...
especially noticing the first two bytes of the /tmp file names are all "VI".

I suspect that "man" might be using "view" (which is a read-only) mode of
"vi" as the pager instead of "more" (which I think is the default) or
"less" (which I think is the only rational choice :).

What is the environment variable "PAGER" set to, donna?  Try (without a "$"
before "PAGER"):

printenv PAGER


It wouldn't surprise me if "man" recognizes (an)other environment
variable(s) to indicate what to use to paginate (scroll) through the man
output when directed to a TTY device.  Do a "man man" to find out.

I hope this helps.

-- Jeff Woods

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