man(1) output error

[parv at pair.com]

in message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010302050110.7006 at wonkity.com>,
wrote Warren Block thusly...
>
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Warren Block wrote:
>
> > 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
...
> >> 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'.
>
> Actually, it appears to be a problem with long manual pages,
> including csh, bash, or perlfunc.

I tried with "man perlfunc | less '+/y'" (also repeated the above
with csh) which did not result in any error messages in zsh 4 on
FreeBSD 8-STABLE (c. Sep 9 2010).


  - parv

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