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Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:56:42 -0500
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Dave Korn wrote:
> Haojun Bao wrote:
> 
>>> Bill McCormick wrote:
>>>> Bill McCormick wrote:
>>>>> Bill McCormick wrote:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There's something wrong with my man pager; it's producing garbage
>>>>>> output. My ~/.bashrc has these entries:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> export MANPAGER='less -isrR'
>>>>>> export PAGER='less -r'
> 
>> Hi, I also have the same issue.
>>
>> however, there was a warning before I do `man find' that says:
>> Warning: cannot open configuration file /usr/share/misc/man.conf
>>
>> So, after a `find /etc -name "man.conf"', I fixed it by this command:
>>
>> cp /etc/defaults/usr/share/misc/man.conf /usr/share/misc/man.conf
>>
>> This maybe a packaging problem?
> 
>   I tried temporarily moving my man.conf out of the way and it also reproduces
> the symptom's of Bill's problem exactly as he describes.  Bill, try this!

Yep. That's it.


Thanks,

Bill

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