man(1) output error

[Polytropon]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:00:41 -0700, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Does it by any chance go away if you cause "less" to read the
> pipe all the way to EOF, e.g. by entering G, before exiting?

In this case - no error message (either by typing G, End, or
manually scrolling through the whole manpage).

% man csh | less
:q
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
% 

% man csh | less
:G
(END)
:q
% 



> If so, there may be a problem in the way man handles SIGPIPE.

Would be understandable.


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