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Date:      Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:02:13 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Cc:        des@freebsd.org
Subject:   man broken
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101281952460.17790-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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man(1) was broken in rev.1.39 of src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.c:

$ man ls
Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting ")")
Error executing formatting or display command.
system command exited with status 512
Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting ")")
Error executing formatting or display command.
system command exited with status 512
No manual entry for man
$ man -d ls
...
trying command: (cd /usr/share/man ; /usr/bin/zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -S -Wall -mtty-char -mandoc(null) | /usr/bin/col | less -i)

Bruce



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