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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.			



  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-08 15:50 UTC|newest]

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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