On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 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?
>
> --
>
> Joel VanderWerf
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had to go and convert them all to".gz"'s, and that worked. But, it is alot of
work, because I had to do it for the "info" pages as well.
--
And Bill screamed, "My God, its full of penguins".
David Comeau
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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