Less misbehaves when used for "man" pager...

[Doug Fields]

I have been running less (can't say which version but it's recent. 1.90
perhaps?) sicne i've been running SCO Xenix and moved to SCO Unix. When
I edit the /etc/default/man so that it uses less for the pager instead
of pg, and you try to read a un-formatted man page (I installed the TPS
from Xenix on my Unix), less will spew out a ton of warnings about things
the terminal can't do, such as scroll backwards, etc. This has happened from
both SCO products, 3.2.2 Unix and 2.3.3 Xenix. Is the TERM environment variable
somehow misplaced or something?

It was a bigger problem under Xenix because all man pages were unformatted.
With Unix they're formatted already (because SCO is too lazy to include
an nroff). But whenever I get man pages on any other man entry I have,
guess what... It gives me those errors.

Thanks for any help.

Doug
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