From: donadio@wilbur.psu.edu (Beaker) Subject: Problem with man(1) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 20:19:48 GMT
I seem to be having a problem with man. Certain man pages will not
display. I tried a few them on a SPARCII, and they work fine, so
I suspect that I messed something up, or man has a bug in it. Here
are the last few lines from a man -d cal :
found ultimate source file /usr/man/man1/cal.1
to_name in convert_name () is: /usr/man/cat1/cal.1.Z
will try to write /usr/man/cat1/cal.1.Z if needed
status from is_newer() = 217056
Couldn't open /usr/man/cat1/cal.1.Z for writing.
using default preprocessor sequence
trying command: (cd /usr/man ; /usr/bin/gtbl Regents of the University of California.
| /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | /usr/bin/less -s)
Man found the proper man page, but it is mangling the filename in the
pipe. If I manually set up the pipe, everything is fine. Any ideas
what could be wrong?
This happens with the man pages for cal, tcsh, olvwm, and most of the
X man pages.