diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5c0a37dea..35b9c42d5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 2005-06-06  Roland Illig  <roland.illig@gmx.de>
 
 	* NEWS: Added the differences between pre3 and HEAD.
+	* lib/mc.ext.in: Added ${PAGER} as fallback if neither lynx nor
+	links is installed.
 
 2005-05-31  Andrew V. Samoilov  <sav@bcs.zp.ua>
 
diff --git a/lib/mc.ext.in b/lib/mc.ext.in
index 1c596eea6..dc5acb779 100644
--- a/lib/mc.ext.in
+++ b/lib/mc.ext.in
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ type/^PDF
 
 # html
 regex/\.([hH][tT][mM][lL]?)$
-	Open=if test -n "@X11_WWW@" && test -n "$DISPLAY"; then (@X11_WWW@ file://%d/%p &) >/dev/null 2>&1; else links %f 2>/dev/null || lynx -force_html %f; fi
+	Open=(if test -n "@X11_WWW@" && test -n "$DISPLAY"; then (@X11_WWW@ file://%d/%p &) 1>&2; else links %f || lynx -force_html %f || ${PAGER:-more} %f; fi) 2>/dev/null
 	View=%view{ascii} lynx -dump -force_html %f
 
 # StarOffice 5.2