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Date:      Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:49:33 -0500
From:      Carroll Kong <damascus@home.com>
To:        "Paul A. Howes" <pahowes@fair-ware.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Double Man Pages...
Message-ID:  <4.2.2.20010128134600.00d913d0@netmail.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <BCEFKOJHNDEAJONMKMHEKEHCCHAA.pahowes@fair-ware.com>

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At 12:40 PM 1/28/01 -0500, Paul A. Howes wrote:
>All-
>
>When I install a machine with a fresh 4.2-RELEASE distro, the "man" command
>works as expected.  When I use cvsup to bring the machine up to 4.2-STABLE
>for the first time, man shows every manual page twice.  By that, I mean, the
>manual page displays normally, and instead of exiting back to a command line
>prompt, the whole thing is displayed again, requiring me to either page
>through it, or hit "q" to exit.  The "info" command has the same behavior:
>The manual page is in the buffer twice, in its entirety.
>
>Is this a problem others have seen?  Or do I just have something screwy in
>my configuration?
>
>--
>Paul A. Howes
>pahowes@fair-ware.com

It might mean you have the compressed man page and the uncompressed man 
page.  Do a find on the man page dirs, and see if you got .gz extensions 
and just normal .1 or .2 extensions.  You might be able to fix it by 
running find and executing a gzip command on them.

-Carroll Kong



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