man(1) output error

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Oct 31 00:13:04 UTC 2010


On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Chip Camden wrote:

>> % man csh | less +/rehash
>>
>>        rehash  Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the  directo-
>>                ries  in the path variable to be recomputed.  This is 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 #85: Fri Oct 29 10:27:19 PDT 2010     sterling at libertas.local.camdensoftware.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIBERTAS  amd64

This seems to be a problem with the csh man page.  Other pages work 
fine, like 'man hosts | less +/named' or 'man devfs | less +/ruleset'.


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