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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: bin/37662: man(1) fails to display anything if $PAGER is set but blank
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The following reply was made to PR bin/37662; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Peter Lowe <pgl@yoyo.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/37662: man(1) fails to display anything if $PAGER is set but blank
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 10:14:56 +0100

 On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 12:16:39PM +0100, Peter Lowe wrote:
 > >Fix:
 > patch man's source to check for $PAGER with a non-zero value.
 
 I think this is actually a bug in the FreeBSD version of sh.
 It accepts the command:
 
 	(echo hello |)
 
 as valid, where as most Bourne like shells don't.
 
 	David.

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