Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-31 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Warren Block on Saturday, 30 October 2010: > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Warren Block wrote: > > >On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Chip Camden wrote: > > > >>>% man csh | less +/rehash > >>> > >>> rehash Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the > >>>directo- > >>> ries in th

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Polytropon wrote: True - and just confirmed on 5.4-p14, so it must have been waiting inside the machine for many years now... Looks like the Norwiegans got to the the south pole first: http://lists.free

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-31 Thread parv
in message , wrote Warren Block thusly... > > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:13 PM, wrote: > > I tried with "man perlfunc | less '+/y'" (also repeated the above > > with csh) which did not result in any error messages in zsh 4 on > >

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:00:41 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Does it by any chance go away if you cause "less" to read the > pipe all the way to EOF, e.g. by entering G, before exiting? In this case - no error message (either by typing G, End, or manually scrolling through the whole manpage)

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-30 Thread perryh
Warren Block wrote: > >>> % man csh | less +/rehash > >>> [...] > >>> 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 csh > >

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Polytropon wrote: > True - and just confirmed on 5.4-p14, so it must have been > waiting inside the machine for many years now... > Looks like the Norwiegans got to the the south pole first: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-November/030705

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:21:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block 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'

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-30 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:13 PM, wrote: I tried with "man perlfunc | less '+/y'" (also repeated the above with csh) which did not result in any error messages in zsh 4 on FreeBSD 8-STABLE (c. Sep 9 2010). Perhaps it's not directly

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:27:49 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:13 PM, wrote: > > > I tried with "man perlfunc | less '+/y'" (also repeated the above > > with csh) which did not result in any error messages in zsh 4 on > > FreeBSD 8-STABLE (c. Sep 9 2010). > > > > Perha

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:13 PM, wrote: > I tried with "man perlfunc | less '+/y'" (also repeated the above > with csh) which did not result in any error messages in zsh 4 on > FreeBSD 8-STABLE (c. Sep 9 2010). > Perhaps it's not directly related to the shell since your config is similar to exc

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-30 Thread parv
in message , wrote Warren Block thusly... > > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Warren Block wrote: > > > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Chip Camden wrote: > > > >>> % man csh | less +/rehash > >>> > >>>rehash Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the > >>> directo- > >>>ries in the

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-30 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Chip Camden wrote: % man csh | less +/rehash rehash Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the directo- ries in the path variable to be recomputed. This is needed if [...] Error execut

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-30 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Chip Camden wrote: % man csh | less +/rehash rehash Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the directo- ries in the path variable to be recomputed. This is needed if [...] Error executing formatting or display command. system com

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-29 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Polytropon on Friday, 29 October 2010: > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:30:00 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: > > > % man csh | less +/rehash > > > > > > but after exiting less: > > > > > > Error executing formatting or display command. > > > system command exited with status 36096 > > > Error executing f

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-29 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:30:00 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: > > % man csh | less +/rehash > > > > but after exiting less: > > > > Error executing formatting or display command. > > system command exited with status 36096 > > Error executing formatting or display command. > > system command exited with

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-29 Thread Eitan Adler
> % man csh | less +/rehash > > but after exiting less: > > 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 csh > > This error seems new. I can