> 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 ls > > > > it just sits there. ^C reveals: I have the same problem with a hanging man (hmm...), but there is no such thing as 'set -a' in any of my bash startup files. I helped myself with a QAD hack: #!/bin/sh for i in /usr/man /usr/local/man /usr/man/de_DE /usr/man/it_IT /usr/X11R6/man do for j in $i/man[1-9] do if [ -f $j/$1* ] then zcat $j/$1* | nroff -man | less exit fi done done echo no man page for $1 Heiko ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heiko Selber (Fritz-Haber-Institut Berlin) | I condem'n the abuse of | http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/~selber | apostrophe's. | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Phone:+49-30-8413-4574, Fax:+49-30-8413-4686 |____________________________| finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp public key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
