On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:21:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds right. The initial search command for less (+/whatever) is not > always needed; after the error appears with it, just 'man perlfunc | > less' will give the errors. > > The errors appear here when 'man perlfunc | less +/y' is run on csh, > bash, or zsh and "q" is pressed before the EOF has been reached: > > % man perlfunc | less +/y > Error executing formatting or display command. > system command exited with status 36096 > No manual entry for perlfunc > > The status is always 36096, or 0x8d00. Haven't yet found a short man > page which does this. Interestingly, longer man pages may do it twice: > > % man ifconfig | less +/following > Error executing formatting or display command. > system command exited with status 36096 > Error executing formatting or display command. > system command exited with status 36096 > No manual entry for ifconfig > > Go to the EOF with "G" first, then press "q", and there are no errors.
True - and just confirmed on 5.4-p14, so it must have been waiting inside the machine for many years now... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
