[3607] in RedHat Linux List
functionning of the man pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Sat Nov 9 15:15:20 1996
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 15:08:47 -0500
From: ray@fred.net (Ray Curtis)
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In-Reply-To: <199611091956.UAA24983@pc.polytechnique.fr>
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Olivier Klein writes:
> Thanks for the hint concerning groff. Got it installed, but the
> functionning of the man pages is still mysterious to me. It must have
> done something else while trying to look at the man pages w/o this
> publishing application. I can look up at the man pages of untouched
> commands. However I get a blank page if I try to look up at commands
> that I touched while without groff. (The corresponding file in the man
> directory is not blank). Does someone know if which directory the
> touched files are?
> Olivier
You shouldn't have done anything to the manpages. What are using
to read the manpages ? Maybe that is your problem. The only
other thing I can think of is that your MANPATH is screwed up or
/etc/man.config has a problem. You could always re-install man,
as a last ditch effort.
Hope that helps,
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