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Date: 13 Mar 2000 01:00:00 +0200
From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
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Hi Stefan,

[...]
>$ man man
>Error executing formatting or display command.
[...]
>No manual entry for man
>
>However, if I "manually" run the above command "(cd /usr/local/man ;
>(echo -e "..."  ...,etc the man page is printed out just fine. So, why
>doesn't it work from the man command?
>
>Any hints highly appreciated. Thanks,

Probably either your man pages or your man config file is in DOS, not
Unix format and/or your partitions are not mounted in binary mode.

>
>Stefan L

Bye.
Michael.
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