Bug 80893 – Setting MANWIDTH in environment does not successfully affect the displayed width of man pages.

Bug 80893 - Setting MANWIDTH in environment does not successfully affect the displayed width of man pages.

Summary:	Setting MANWIDTH in environment does not successfully affect the displayed wi...

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	man (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Eido Inoue
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Reported:	2003-01-01 16:03 EST by David Sumbler
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:49 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version:	1.5o1-1
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Last Closed:	2004-11-09 17:17:28 EST
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Description David Sumbler 2003-01-01 16:03:16 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-GB; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823
Netscape/7.0

Description of problem:
Man pages display 78 characters per line, even after I enter a command such as 

export MANWIDTH=100

The variable is being correctly set, but 'man' does not use this value, contrary
to what is stated in the 'man' manual.


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter command 'export MANWIDTH=60' (for instance)
2. Enter command 'man ls' (for instance)

    

Actual Results:  Displayed width of man page is unaffected (78 characters).

Expected Results:  Width should have been 60 characters

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael Wardle 2003-01-20 19:27:41 EST

Seems to be related to bug 79172.

Comment 2 Eido Inoue 2003-02-07 15:17:30 EST


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79172 ***

Comment 3 Florian La Roche 2003-02-07 19:59:25 EST

/ll is not setup from the current man, so this really looks like
a problem in man. Seems also it only allows setting the width in
a certain range, so I am not sure this is really a supported option.

greetings,

Florian La Roche

Comment 4 Eido Inoue 2004-11-09 17:17:28 EST

man was not passing -rLT and -rLL to nroff/groff; fixed in current rawhide

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