From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] man displays binary rubbish
Date: Sat Sep 8 09:51:01 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010908095002.C30059@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010908172054.A456@schlepp.t-online.de>; from krause@unitrade.com on Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 05:20:54PM +0200
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 05:20:54PM +0200, Joerg Krause wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've compiled the actual build-ix86-1.0_rc6-r7.tbz2 and I've got a problem
> with the man pages.
> If I try eg "man cp" on the shell man displays binaray rubbish. Does anyone
> else has this problem?
Sorry you got caught with this problem. Remerge the latest sys-apps/man and
then do a:
cd /etc
ls ._cfg????_man.conf
(find the one with the biggest number in ????, in this example "2")
cp ._cfg0002_man.conf man.conf
rm ._cfg????_man.conf
Man pages should now work!
Best Regards,
--
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-08 9:22 [gentoo-dev] man displays binary rubbish Joerg Krause
2001-09-08 9:51 ` Daniel Robbins [this message]
2001-09-08 10:06 ` Joerg Krause
2001-09-08 10:21 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-09-08 10:25 ` Joerg Krause
2001-09-08 13:22 ` Daniel Robbins
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