From: najem@milton.cs.uiuc.edu (Ziad Najem) Subject: Re: Problem with man(1) Date: 30 Sep 1992 01:15:00 GMT
donadio@wilbur.psu.edu (Beaker) writes:
>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
Make sure that /usr/man/cat1 exists and is writable by the owener of
the man pages. for each man section you have you need a cat section.
Or, you can disable saving cat pages when configuring man for
compilation.
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- Ziad
najem@cs.uiuc.edu