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Re: Updated: bash-2.04-6
- To: lhall at rfk dot com
- Subject: Re: Updated: bash-2.04-6
- From: "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle at w3 dot org>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:48:12 -0500
- Cc: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010131103600.0205aef8@rpcp.mit.edu>
At 11:16 1/31/2001 -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
>At 10:40 AM 1/31/2001, Joseph M. Reagle Jr. wrote:
> >Installing this version, prompted me to do a 'man bash' which results in
> the following error and subsequent corruption of my display:
> > <standard input>:1380: warning: can't break line
> >However, I then tested this with a previous version which had the same
> error.
>
>Right. This isn't bash issue but a man one. Check /usr/lib/man.conf.
>You should be using -Tascii for NROFF. If that's not the issue for you,
>you can also look for man/nroff/groff issues in the mail archives. People
>have had similar problems in the (distant) past and some solutions
>proposed there may help you.
Thanks Larry. My noff entry is as follows, and I will note that bash is the
only "corrupt" instance where I've found this, man works fine otherwise.
I've looked in the archives and nothing jumped out as a related cause...
NROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc
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