Manual page width is fixed and I'd like it not to be

[Raye Raskin]

> Hi! I've just been installing Cygwin on a new machine and getting 
> everything into the shape I like it, but there's something I can't seem 
> to figure out how to fix.
> 
> I'm running XWin all the time so I can use xterms, but manual pages seem 
> to get formatted to 80 columns wide no matter how wide my xterm window 
> is. This is, as you may imagine, somewhat irritating, and I'm at my 
> wits' end in trying to find where to fix it.
> 
> Has anyone any advice to offer? I'd greatly appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- Aaron

Try making your font smaller so the man page width still fits your
narrow xterm.


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