From: Heinz Schuerch (schuerch@hasler.ascom.ch)
Date: 02/24/93


From: schuerch@hasler.ascom.ch (Heinz Schuerch)
Subject: [Q] groff-1.06/man-1.1 problems
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 12:39:51 GMT

This is my first post to this newsgroup so I would like to first thank to all
the people who brougth Linux so far. It's simply great.

Now my question. I'm looking for a working man; I decided to compile the stuff
myself.

1. groff did not compile out of the box (with the patches from Rik Faith). I
   had to change different lines in makefiles like:

                @echo ................@
                @-rm -................
   to

                echo .................;
                rm - .................

   I'm using linux-0.99.5, bash (from hlu's root disk dated ~ 30.12.93) and
   make 3.62.
   What's wrong with my set-up ?

2. man compiles without any problem but it does not behaves as expected.
   The command "$ man man <return>" prompts in less than 10 seconds without
   writing anything to the screen.
   The command "$ man man | less <return>" produces the nice and expected
   output on the screen. The environment variable "PAGER" is set correctly.

   What do I wrong here.

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heinz schuerch |
ascom tech ag | e-mail: schuerch@tech.ascom.ch
broadband research dept. |
switzerland |
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