Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 18:00:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: pir@pir.net (Peter Radcliffe), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, mpp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: man displays pages twice! Message-ID: <199909242300.SAA06300@mpp.pro-ns.net> In-Reply-To: <199909241918.MAA03726@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Sep 24, 1999 12:18:55 pm"
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> > "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> probably said: > > > > now, each man command brings up a man page twice! what have i done? > > > > > > Look in /usr/share/man/man7, see if you have files that end with and > > > without .gz, if so you ran one install with NOMANCOMPRESS and one > > > without it. > > > > ] globbing /usr/share/man/man1/man.1* [snip] > > ] trying command: /usr/bin/zcat /usr/share/man/cat1/man.1.gz | more > > > > I've had this problem for a while and never found the time to go > > through the man source and work out just why it is inclined to > > show me the same file twice. > > Removing the older of the compressed and uncompressed does indeed > > solve the symptom, but that behaviour is still wrong - those two > > commands are showing exactly the same file. > > Hummm... hey mpp, is this the functionality that we talked about > that Berkeley man had in that it would show you all sections of > the manual that had a page by the same name gone haywire in GNU's > version of man??? Not quite, I think, but it may be some half-baked attempt by the GNU man to do so. Or more likely an artifact of adding compressed man pages after the original version was written. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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