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

man(1) output error

2010-10-28 Thread Warren Block
On 8-stable, this works: % 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.