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  • From: Geoffrey Derber <gderber AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] man page problems
  • Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:45:37 -0500

Geoffrey Derber wrote:

I'm having some problems with several man pages. tar, bash, gaze, and
several others.

the output to 'man tar' looks like this:
<standard input>:3: warning: can't find character with input code 2
<standard input>:3: warning: can't find character with input code 3
<standard input>:3: warning: can't find character with input code 12
<standard input>:3: warning [p 1, 0.2i]: can't break line
<standard input>:4: warning: can't find character with input code 7
<standard input>:4: warning: can't find character with input code 127
<standard input>:4: warning: can't find character with input code 5
<standard input>:4: warning: numeric expression expected (got `?')
<standard input>:4: warning: can't find character with input code 6
<standard input>:4: warning [p 1, 0.3i]: cannot adjust line
<standard input>:4: warning [p 1, 0.5i]: can't break line
<standard input>:4: warning: can't find character with input code 4
<standard input>:4: warning [p 1, 0.8i]: cannot adjust line
<standard input>:5: warning [p 1, 1.0i]: cannot adjust line
<standard input>:5: warning [p 1, 1.2i]: cannot adjust line
<standard input>:5: warning [p 1, 1.3i]: can't break line
<standard input>:5: warning [p 1, 1.5i]: cannot adjust line
<standard input>:5: warning [p 1, 1.7i]: can't break line
grotty:<standard input>:6: character above first line discarded
<standard input>:8: warning [p 1, 2.0i]: cannot adjust line
<standard input>:8: warning [p 1, 2.2i]: cannot adjust line
<standard input>:9: warning [p 1, 2.3i]: cannot adjust line
<standard input>:9: warning [p 1, 2.5i]: can't break line
<standard input>:9: warning [p 1, 2.7i]: cannot adjust line
<standard input>:9: warning [p 1, 2.8i]: can't break line
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gaze and bash are similar. And the problem either is getting worse with
time, ie more pages affected, or I'm just finding more and more pages
with time that are affected.

Thanks,
Geoff


Martin Ruderer provided me with this solution.

Apparently I ended up with two files.
/usr/man/man1/tar.1.gz and /usr/man/man1/tar.1.gz.bz2

I deleted the tar.1.gz.bz2 and it worked, my only question is how was that file created to begin with. But that's not a big deal.

Geoff





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