From: fox@cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) Subject: Re: "man" :command not found Date: 3 Jan 1993 04:26:20 GMT
In article <1993Jan2.230541.4428@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) writes:
I have been having no problem with man in the past, but after
updating to .99p2, get the following message.
$man uucp
: command not found
$
This just started to happen with the updated version (.99p2), though
I wouldn't think that it would have anything to do with it???
If I pass some bogus manual page name to man, it says man page not
found as expected.
Any clues what started causing this? (I'm stumped)
I had a problem because I was setting the PAGER environment
variable to the empty string. I was getting the message
"Syntax error" because I was trying to read compressed man
pages, which constructs the command "$EXPANDER filename | $PAGER"
but if you try to read uncompressed man pages with
PAGER set to the empty string you will probably get the
message you are getting. Change to PAGER=cat. (I don't
user PAGER=less because I read my man pages in emacs.)
There is an easy fix to man-1.1 which I should report to
the FSF.
-david