From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 12 03:13:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA24888 for current-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 03:13:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fgate.flevel.co.uk (fgate.flevel.co.uk [194.6.101.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA24877 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 03:13:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dev@localhost) by fgate.flevel.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA25731; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 11:15:41 +0100 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 11:15:40 +0100 (BST) From: Developer To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD-current users Subject: Re: Help with Manpages In-Reply-To: <199607111914.VAA15730@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > 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.) Thanks for that, you are dead right.. I deleted /usr/share/tmac and then re-installed groff and it worked fine:) (Strange thing was it didn`t work when I just installed groff, I had to delete the old stuff first). Also it has solved the problem I had with the new termcap database:) Thanks again:) Regards, Trefor S.