[5038] in testers
linux 9.0.9: man/less nmh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Fri Jul 20 22:26:29 2001
Message-Id: <200107210225.WAA05127@red-herring.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 22:25:34 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
System name: red-herring.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.0.9 (with mkserv)
Display type: XFree86 4.0.3
Shell: /bin/athena/bash
Window manager: ctwm
What were you trying to do?
View the nmh man page
What's wrong:
I get the following garbage, when I run 'man nmh'
^ali (1)~^- list mail aliases
^anno (1)~^- annotate messages
^burst (1)~^- explode digests into messages
^comp (1)~^- compose a message
^dist (1)~^- redistribute a message to additional addresses
^flist (1)~^- list folders that contain messages in given sequence(s)
^flists (1)~^- list all folders that contain messages in given sequence(s)
^folder (1)~^- set/list current folder/message
^folders (1)~^- list all folders
^forw (1)~^- forward messages
^inc (1)~^- incorporate new mail
^mark (1)~^- mark messages
^mhbuild (1)~^- translate MIME composition draft
^mhl (1)~^- produce formatted listings of nmh messages
^mhlist (1)~^- list information about content of MIME messages
^mhmail (1)~^- send or read mail
^mhn (1)~^- display/list/store/cache MIME messages
^mhparam (1)~^- print nmh profile components
^mhpath (1)~^- print full pathnames of nmh messages and folders
^mhshow (1)~^- display MIME messages
^mhstore (1)~^- store contents of MIME messages into files
^msgchk (1)~^- check for messages
^msh (1)~^- nmh shell (and BBoard reader)
^next (1)~^- show the next message
^packf (1)~^- compress a folder into a single file
^pick (1)~^- select messages by content
^prev (1)~^- show the previous message
^prompter (1)~^- prompting editor front end
^rcvdist (1)~^- asynchronously redistribute new mail
^rcvpack (1)~^- append message to file
^rcvstore (1)~^- asynchronously incorporate new mail
^rcvtty (1)~^- report new mail
^refile (1)~^- file messages in other folders
^repl (1)~^- reply to a message
^rmf (1)~^- remove folder
^rmm (1)~^- remove messages
^scan (1)~^- produce a one line per message scan listing
^send (1)~^- send a message
^sendfiles (1)~^- send multiple files and directories in MIME message
^show (1)~^- show (display) messages
^slocal (1)~^- asynchronously filter and deliver new mail
^sortm (1)~^- sort messages
^whatnow (1)~^- prompting front-end for send
^whom (1)~^- report to whom a message would go
Moreover, I get the same garbage when I view /usr/athena/man/man1/nmh.1
with less (either the one in /usr/bin, or the one in the sipb locker;
they are version 358+iso247 and 358 respectively).
cat or more will confirm that the file at least looks like troff.
What should have happened:
I should get something more reasonably formatted. less should not
surprize me by drooling on my file at an inopportune moment.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
The less man page documents the preprocessor functionality; unsetting
LESSOPEN seems to un-break less.
I seem to have gotten LESSOPEN set courtesy of /etc/profile.d
The same man page looks fine on solaris.
