Ken Wilson wrote:
>
> I've tried them pretty much to the same effect. I basically gave
> up on them figuring I could use the man pages in console mode,
> although it would be nice to have the xman interface, it is much
> more convenient.
>
> Maybe BeRo can help us on this one when he's not so busy.
...
> > Has anyone who uses xman figured out how to use it with the bzip2
> > compressed man pages in Mandrake 6.0? A quick perusal of the xman
> > man page and of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xman yielded nothing
> > that I could find to help xman display these pages.
> >
> > xman complains many times over (to stderr) about "uknown character"
> > and displays junk in the xman window whenever it tries to display
> > a man page.
I've been having this problem after switching from RH6.0 to Mandrake
6.0. KDEHelp was able to read all man pages in RH, but now it can't read
the ones that are in .bz2 format. Maybe we have to manually unzip these?
When I try to browse a typical entry (say, alias(1)), I get a page that
has only "Table of Contents" on it.
When I use the "Open file" command on /usr/man/man1/alias.1.bz2, I get
the message:
Unknown format: /usr/man/man1/alias.1.bz2
>From the command line the man command can read some entries, such as ln
and cfdisk. But it cannot read, for example, alias. Here's the error:
$ man alias
fopen: No such file or directory
Cannot open man page /usr/man/man1/builtins2.1.bz2
No manual entry for alias
Any ideas on this second problem?
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Joel VanderWerf
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