From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 28 10:59:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cc762335-a.ebnsk1.nj.home.com (cc762335-a.ebnsk1.nj.home.com [24.3.219.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 254B337B400 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:59:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 98512 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2001 18:58:13 -0000 Received: from athena.faerun.com (HELO athena) (192.168.0.2) by cc762335-a.ebnsk1.nj.home.com with SMTP; 28 Jan 2001 18:58:13 -0000 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010128134600.00d913d0@netmail.home.com> X-Sender: damascus@netmail.home.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:49:33 -0500 To: "Paul A. Howes" From: Carroll Kong Subject: Re: Double Man Pages... Cc: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:40 PM 1/28/01 -0500, Paul A. Howes wrote: >All- > >When I install a machine with a fresh 4.2-RELEASE distro, the "man" command >works as expected. When I use cvsup to bring the machine up to 4.2-STABLE >for the first time, man shows every manual page twice. By that, I mean, the >manual page displays normally, and instead of exiting back to a command line >prompt, the whole thing is displayed again, requiring me to either page >through it, or hit "q" to exit. The "info" command has the same behavior: >The manual page is in the buffer twice, in its entirety. > >Is this a problem others have seen? Or do I just have something screwy in >my configuration? > >-- >Paul A. Howes >pahowes@fair-ware.com It might mean you have the compressed man page and the uncompressed man page. Do a find on the man page dirs, and see if you got .gz extensions and just normal .1 or .2 extensions. You might be able to fix it by running find and executing a gzip command on them. -Carroll Kong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message