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From: | Bill McCormick <wpmccormick AT gmail DOT com> |
Subject: | Re: Garbage man pages |
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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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