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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] man displays binary rubbish
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 09:50:02
Message-Id: 20010908095002.C30059@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] man displays binary rubbish by Joerg Krause
1 On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 05:20:54PM +0200, Joerg Krause wrote:
2 > Hi there,
3 >
4 > I've compiled the actual build-ix86-1.0_rc6-r7.tbz2 and I've got a problem
5 > with the man pages.
6 > If I try eg "man cp" on the shell man displays binaray rubbish. Does anyone
7 > else has this problem?
8
9 Sorry you got caught with this problem. Remerge the latest sys-apps/man and
10 then do a:
11
12 cd /etc
13 ls ._cfg????_man.conf
14 (find the one with the biggest number in ????, in this example "2")
15 cp ._cfg0002_man.conf man.conf
16 rm ._cfg????_man.conf
17
18 Man pages should now work!
19
20 Best Regards,
21
22 --
23 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
24 Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
25 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

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