Re: man hangs with less and more

1997-06-11 Thread Heiko R. Selber
> You probably have 'set -a' in /etc/profile or some of your bash startup > files. > For some reason 'set -a' causes this problem. It's also reported as bug #8390. > The only cure I have is to remove 'set -a' from the startup files and > logout/login again. > Mark Boyns wrote: > > > > When I r

Re: man hangs with less and more

1997-06-03 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
You probably have 'set -a' in /etc/profile or some of your bash startup files. For some reason 'set -a' causes this problem. It's also reported as bug #8390. The only cure I have is to remove 'set -a' from the startup files and logout/login again. Mark Boyns wrote: > > When I run: > >$ man

man hangs with less and more

1997-06-03 Thread Mark Boyns
When I run: $ man ls it just sits there. ^C reveals: man: command exited with status 2: /bin/gzip -dc '/var/catman/cat1/ls.1.gz' | { export MAN_PN LESS; MAN_PN='ls(1)'; LESS="$LESS\$-Pm\:\$ix8mPm Manual page $MAN_PN ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\\%.."; less; } Running