man can't display man pages.
Larry Hall
lh-no-personal-replies-please@cygwin.com
Wed Jun 15 14:52:00 GMT 2005
At 09:24 AM 6/15/2005, you wrote:
>Folks,
> You may recall my misadventures with downloading groff over the
>past few days. Our SA is working on getting the web-filter to let the
>latest version through.
>
>In the meantime I have downloaded and installed groff-1.17.2-1 which is
>the previous version.
>
>Now for the punchline. When I try to use man all I get is the "END" tag.
>
>Note that the file is being found (I don't get the message "No manual
>entry for foobar") and the files are there (for example
>/usr/share/man/man1/rlogin.1).
>
>Is this an issue with groff-1.17.2-1?
As a check of the email archives might suggest, no this is not an issue with
groff-1.17.2-1. You'll need to debug this a bit further. Or, if you prefer,
grab the source of the current version instead and build it locally. But it
sounds to me like this is a local configuration issue.
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