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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: man(1) output error
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:30:00 -0400, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> > % man csh | less +/rehash
> >
> > but after exiting less:
> >
> > Error executing formatting or display command.
> > system command exited with status 36096
> > Error executing formatting or display command.
> > system command exited with status 36096
> > No manual entry for csh
> >
> > This error seems new.
> 
> I can confirm that this does occur on 8.1-RELEASE and does not occur
> on 8.1-STABLE r213338.

Must be something older - I can confirm this for 7-STABLE (as of
Aug 2008) on my home system. The error message appears when the
man program (less) is quit by typing 'q'. The searching process
itself works as intended.

% man csh | less +/rehash

       rehash  Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the  directo-
               ries  in the path variable to be recomputed.  This is needed if
	[...]
Error executing formatting or display command.
system command exited with status 36096
Error executing formatting or display command.
system command exited with status 36096
No manual entry for csh
% 



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