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Date:      Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:06:15 -0700
From:      Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: man(1) output error
Message-ID:  <20101031160615.GA89086@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010302050110.7006@wonkity.com>
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Quoth Warren Block on Saturday, 30 October 2010:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Warren Block wrote:
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> >On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Chip Camden wrote:
> >
> >>>% man csh | less +/rehash
> >>>
> >>>       rehash  Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the=
=20
> >>>directo-
> >>>               ries  in the path variable to be recomputed.  This is=
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> >>>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
> >>>%
> >>>
> >>
> >>(meant to reply to list)
> >>
> >>I can confirm that the very latest 8.1-STABLE (csup and build this
> >>morning) reproduces the problem.  uname -a:
> >>
> >>FreeBSD libertas.local.camdensoftware.com 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE=
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> >>#85: Fri Oct 29 10:27:19 PDT 2010=20
> >>sterling@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIBERTA=
S=20
> >>amd64
> >
> >This seems to be a problem with the csh man page.  Other pages work fine=
,=20
> >like 'man hosts | less +/named' or 'man devfs | less +/ruleset'.
>=20
> Actually, it appears to be a problem with long manual pages, including=20
> csh, bash, or perlfunc.

Yes -- it also fails on 'man zshall | less +/alias', for instance.

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