how to make man page not disappear on exit

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Published on 2011-01-03T07:46:17Z Indexed on 2011/01/04 22:55 UTC
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...probably a silly question but I could not beat google into telling me the answer so posting here:

I got 2 machines - Slackware 13 and Fedora 11.

On the slack machine, when I use man I can scroll all the way to the bottom then exit man and the info stays in my terminal window (which I find very convenient as I can read it while typing the command in question, copy-paste the options, etc.).

On fedora when I close man the man page info is gone.

How can I configure man (or is it the terminal?) to not remove the man page info on exit?

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