Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:03:00 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: man displays pages twice! Message-ID: <19990924150259.C25080@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <199909241639.JAA02845@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909241030070.41665-100000@binnacle.wantabe.com> <199909241639.JAA02845@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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"Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> probably said: > > now, each man command brings up a man page twice! what have i done? > > Look in /usr/share/man/man7, see if you have files that end with and > without .gz, if so you ran one install with NOMANCOMPRESS and one > without it. ] globbing /usr/share/man/man1/man.1* ] found ultimate source file /usr/share/man/man1/man.1 ] to_name in convert_name () is: /usr/share/man/cat1/man.1.gz ] will try to write /usr/share/man/cat1/man.1.gz if needed ] status from is_newer() = 0 ] ] trying command: /usr/bin/zcat /usr/share/man/cat1/man.1.gz | more ] to_name in convert_name () is: /usr/share/man/cat1/man.1.gz ] will try to write /usr/share/man/cat1/man.1.gz if needed ] status from is_newer() = 0 ] ] trying command: /usr/bin/zcat /usr/share/man/cat1/man.1.gz | more I've had this problem for a while and never found the time to go through the man source and work out just why it is inclined to show me the same file twice. Removing the older of the compressed and uncompressed does indeed solve the symptom, but that behaviour is still wrong - those two commands are showing exactly the same file. Arguably (IMO, anyway :) if that is the behaviour if you have both it should just display the newer of the two ... P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@shore.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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