[17159] in Athena Bugs
sgi 8.3.16: man
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nickolai Zeldovich)
Wed Sep 8 20:16:35 1999
Message-Id: <199909090016.UAA294127@opus.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 20:16:24 -0400
From: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>
System name: opus.mit.edu
Type and version: IP22 8.3.16 (with mkserv)
Display type: GR3-XZ
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: ctwm
What were you trying to do?
Display a manpage without using the pre-formatted "cat" pages.
What's wrong:
Running 'man -d /usr/athena/man/man1/aklog.1' gives:
opus~18> man -d /usr/athena/man/man1/aklog.1
Reformatting page. Wait...
/usr/lib/macros/an:44: environment stack underflow
/usr/lib/macros/an:58: environment stack underflow
/usr/lib/macros/an:237: `\c' is not allowed in a name
/usr/lib/macros/an:337: environment stack underflow
/usr/lib/macros/an:348: environment stack underflow
grotty:<standard input>:38: unrecognised command code 46
grotty:<standard input>:39: unrecognised command code 46
grotty:<standard input>:40: unrecognised command code 46
And more errors, after which the page is displayed, though
poorly formatted.
I was really trying to make a different manpage, but it failed
in a similar way, and using a system manpage as an example of
failure seems to be more useful.
What should have happened:
The manpage should have been formatted properly without error
messages.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
man(1) [the -d option in SGI man is not the same as -d in Sun man]
