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Re: functionning of the man pages

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Mon Nov 11 12:06:30 1996

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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 09 Nov 1996 20:56:45 +0100."
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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 11:58:47 -0500
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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?

/var/catman/cat1/at.1.gz

"man -c at" will fix the problem by re-formatting the page with groff.

michaelkjohnson

"Ever wonder why the SAME PEOPLE make up ALL the conspiracy theories?"



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