From: danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) Subject: Corrupt 'tar' man page Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:49:26 GMT
I have already alluded to this problem in a message dealing with Seyon,
hoping to kill two birds with one stone. Well, that didn't work, so let
me target a single bird this time. ;-)
I am running the SLS 0.99 linux installation successfully, but I noticed
that the tar man page is corrupted. There may be some others, but I
don't remember which ones. Anyway, when I run the 'man tar' command, I
get a text which starts out like this:
\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
@setfilename tar.info
@settitle The @code{tar} Manual: DRAFT
@ifinfo
This file documents the tape archive of the GNU system.
Copyright (C) 1988 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies.
@ignore
Permission is granted to process this file through TeX and print the
results, provided the printed document carries copying permission
notice identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph
(this paragraph not being relevant to the printed manual).
@end ignore
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of
this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that
.... etc., etc.
Can other SLS 0.99 installers verify if they have the same problem, or I
am the only one? Can anybody recognize what format this text file is in
and how it might have gotten produced -- and possibly how I could fix
this? This text is, BTW, the content of the /usr/man/cat1/tar.1 file
and there is no corresponding /usr/man/man1/tar.1 file.
Thanks,
Joe Pannon