X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A36531A.3010508@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:56:42 -0500 From: Bill McCormick User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Garbage man pages References: <4A326B74 DOT 7000005 AT gmail DOT com> <4A326F19 DOT 8000303 AT gmail DOT com> <4A33100F DOT 5070401 AT gmail DOT com> <83zlccsk2h DOT fsf AT gmail DOT com> <4A33864E DOT 9010506 AT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <4A33864E.9010506@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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/