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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Chris Byrnes <chris@shell.jeah.net>
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Subject: Re: I screwed up. 
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On Sun, 09 Apr 2000 13:02:17 EST, Chris Byrnes wrote:

> [chris@shell] [~]$ man dmesg
> Formatting page, please wait...Cannot fork
> Failed.

Wow. :-)

try this:

	PAGER=/bin/more man dmesg

If that still doesn't work, it looks like your /bin/more program is
hosed.  If it _does_ work, then you've either got PAGER set to something
crazy (possibly in the .profile file in your home directory) or the
binary to which it points is hosed.

Hope that helps.

Ciao,
Sheldon/.


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