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Re: functionning of the man pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Youngman)
Mon Nov 11 07:15:21 1996
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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Date: 11 Nov 1996 12:12:18 GMT
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In article <562nuf$aht@halon.vggas.com>, klein@pc.polytechnique.fr says...
>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?
The prblem may be that the previous process created EMPTY preformatted man
pages. To test this, try
man -c foo
where foo was one of the manual pages that doesn't work yet. This tells the
man utility to ignore the preformatted version.
If this fixes the problem, do:-
find /var/catman -size 0 -print | xargs rm
...and that should fix the problem permanently.
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