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[Dan Geer: can't get manpage]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Oct 29 10:22:08 1989

From: probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 89 10:21:49 -0500
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: Richard Basch   <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

The problem is actually with /usr/ucb/man... apparently, if there is a
man page with a ".so" and the destination of that link does not have a
"cat" page associated with it, you get the error described below.

-Richard

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From: geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 89 05:36:28 -0500
To: probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: can't get manpage


e40-342f-2% man purge
Reformatting page.  Wait...can't open file man1/expunge.1
 done

--dan


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