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Random man page:  pg(1) -- file perusal filter for soft-copy terminals
pg is a text file filter that allows the examination of files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal. If - is used as a file argument, or pg detects NULL arguments in the comand line, the standard input is used. Each screenful is followed by a prompt. To display a new page, press Return. Other possibilities are enumerated below. This command is different from other paginators such as more...
FreeBSD Tip Of the Day View all tips
In order to make fetch (the FreeBSD downloading tool) ask for
username/password when it encounter a password-protected web page, you can set
the environment variable HTTP_AUTH to 'basic:*'.
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