Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 12:16:39 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Lowe <pgl@yoyo.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/37662: man(1) fails to display anything if $PAGER is set but blank Message-ID: <20020502111639.8638144160@armadillo.yoyo.org>
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>Number: 37662 >Category: bin >Synopsis: man(1) fails to display anything if $PAGER is set but blank >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu May 02 04:20:01 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Peter Lowe >Release: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD mili.pha.ct.cz 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #1: Thu Apr 25 09:57:40 GMT 2002 pgl@mili.pha.ct.cz:/usr/src/sys/compile/MILI i386 >Description: man(1) fails to display anything if $PAGER is set but blank. This can be confusing as unset environment variables and ones with no value appear to be the same when echoing. >How-To-Repeat: [mili:pgl]:~ $ export PAGER= [mili:pgl]:~ $ man man >Fix: patch man's source to check for $PAGER with a non-zero value. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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