[Bug 274343] man(1) fails to render manpages that work correctly both with gnroff and mdocml
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:24:39 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=274343
--- Comment #8 from Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> ---
@mirabilos: Sorry, I forgot to mention that I tested with the system
/usr/bin/man command on FreeBSD as well before closing the issue.
/usr/bin/man -l man1/mksh.1.gz|head
MKSH(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual MKSH(1)
NAME
mksh, sh - MirBSD Korn shell
SYNOPSIS
mksh [-+abCefhiklmnprUuvXx] [-T [!]tty | -] [-+o option] [-c string |
-s | file [argument ...]]
builtin-name [argument ...]
Which looks fine to me.
On FreeBSD, the /usr/bin/man is a shell script which tries to find the real
path of a manpage, and then call mandoc or groff to render the manpage.
/usr/bin/gzcat man1/mksh.1.gz | mandoc | less -s
or:
/usr/bin/gzcat man1/mksh.1.gz | tbl | groff -S -P-h -Wall -mtty-char -mandoc
-Tascii -P-c | less -s
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