Re: dict not piping through less/pager

johnny bobby bee <useraddshine-no_spam_eh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey folks -- I've got a new Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) install. And dict isn't
piping anything through less or pager or whatever it normally uses to
allow you to scroll through definitions. It just spits the entire
definition in a shell right to the end. Tried googling, but nothing's
coming up. Any suggestions?

My first thought would be to execute

man dict

but since I don't have dict installed on any systems here, I Googled for
"man dict". One of the man pages said that 'pager' may be set in a
configuration file, which may be ~/.dictrc or /etc/dict.conf. Ubuntu
may not specify a pager for dict. Adding the following line
your own ~/.dictrc should fix the problem.

pager less

'man' is your friend.

--
Gary Johnson
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