Garbage man pages

[Dave Korn]

Haojun Bao wrote:

>> Bill McCormick wrote:
>>> Bill McCormick wrote:
>>>> Bill McCormick wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> There's something wrong with my man pager; it's producing garbage
>>>>> output. My ~/.bashrc has these entries:
>>>>>
>>>>> export MANPAGER='less -isrR'
>>>>> export PAGER='less -r'

> Hi, I also have the same issue.
> 
> however, there was a warning before I do `man find' that says:
> Warning: cannot open configuration file /usr/share/misc/man.conf
> 
> So, after a `find /etc -name "man.conf"', I fixed it by this command:
> 
> cp /etc/defaults/usr/share/misc/man.conf /usr/share/misc/man.conf
> 
> This maybe a packaging problem?

  I tried temporarily moving my man.conf out of the way and it also reproduces
the symptom's of Bill's problem exactly as he describes.  Bill, try this!

  I'll look and see if I can see a packaging problem.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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