[11597] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.6Q: printing man pages on Suns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barbara Goguen)
Mon Jan 10 14:43:20 1994
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 14:43:10 -0500
From: goguen@marley.mit.edu (Barbara Goguen)
To: alexp@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: nethelp@gregor.mit.edu
Alex,
Thank you for your bug report. The bug has been assigned to a developer
for further exploration. Should you wish to make reference to this particular
bug report, please use reference number 1176.
-Barbara
January JIC representative
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>System name: triad
>Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.6Q
>Display type: cgthree
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>What were you trying to do?
> Print a man page with "man -t <topic>".
>
>What's wrong:
> When I do this, it says "Reformatting page. Wait... done". Then
> I get the UNIX prompt back. Nothing gets printed. When I do the
> same on a DECstation, I get a printed man page (but improperly
> formatted, due to another bug I reported earlier). Also, back
> on the Sun, if I do "psroff -man <topic>.1", the man page prints.
>
>What should have happened:
> man -t should print a man page.
>
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> man man (though it is a bit ambigous about "man -t").
>
