From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 11 12:23:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA27155 for current-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 12:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA27148 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 12:23:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA25192; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 21:22:49 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA18524; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 21:22:48 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA15730; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 21:14:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607111914.VAA15730@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Help with Manpages To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 21:14:05 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk (Developer) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Developer at "Jul 11, 96 09:50:36 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Developer wrote: > Here is what man ls comes out like on my screen now:- > > ..........e...tempalo.sO doc-syms NAME I would suspect your troff macros under /usr/share/tmac/ are broken for some reasons. The above looks like an unresolved .so directive. (And yep, there's really a file called /usr/share/tmac/mdoc/doc-syms.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)