man(1) output error

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Oct 31 13:48:44 UTC 2010


On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Adam Vande More wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>       True - and just confirmed on 5.4-p14, so it must have been
>       waiting inside the machine for many years now...
> 
> 
> Looks like the Norwiegans got to the the south pole first:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-November/030705.html

Yes.  A followup explains the problem more:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-November/030708.html

Why I do this: it's nice to give people a direct link to a spot in a man 
page.  There's an alternate way, which is ugly and visually confusing 
but does not show errors:

   % man -P 'less +/following' ifconfig


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