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On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 15:30 -0600, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> Thought maybe someone would be interested in the following error.
> 
> $ man gcc | head
> GCC(1)                                GNU
> GCC(1)
> 
> 
> 
> NAME
>        gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        gcc [-c|-S|-E] [-std=standard]
>            [-g] [-pg] [-Olevel]
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> System command (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".pl 11i"; /usr/bin/gunzip
> -c '/usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1.gz') | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -c
> -mandoc 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/less -isrR) exited with status 36096.
> No manual entry for gcc
> $


probably not.  Why are you wanting to head the output?  Man already
displays using a pager.

$ uname -a
Linux raker2 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 #7 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 17 16:11:22 EST
2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz GenuineIntel
GNU/Linux

$ man gcc |head
GCC(1)                                GNU
GCC(1)



NAME
       gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler

SYNOPSIS
       gcc [-c|-S|-E] [-std=standard]
           [-g] [-pg] [-Olevel]
Error executing formatting or display command.
System command (cd "/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/man"
&& (echo ".pl 11i"; /bin/bzip2 -c -d
'/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/man/man1/gcc.1.bz2')
| /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc | /usr/bin/less) exited with
status 141.
No manual entry for gcc