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Re: 2.9.14 on Mac OSX: some confusion and questions


From: David Bateman
Subject: Re: 2.9.14 on Mac OSX: some confusion and questions
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:18:30 +0200
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By default all output to the screen passes through the pager, probably
the "less" command. Therefore you'll get no output from lookfor till all
of the help pages are searched, and given that this means that the
functions themselves are parsed, this can take sometime. To get the
intermediate display of the functions turn off the pager like

more off; lookfor sum

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