man troubles

[Jason Tishler]

John,

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:56:00AM -0800, John Andrews wrote:
> I'm sure I've screwed something up here, I'm just not sure what. Whenever I
> call man with any argument I get the following error:
> 
> $ man man
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> System command (cd /usr/man ; (echo -e ".pl 1100i"; cat /usr/man/man1/man.1;
> ech
> o ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | less
> -is) e
> xited with status 32512.
> No manual entry for man

Been there, done that (twice)!

Did you install ash?  If not, then you are missing /bin/sh.

Jason

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