problem with man- it hangs on Debian-1.3

1998-01-08 Thread David Konerding
Dear Fellow Debian Users: (let me know if I've posted this to the wrong place; I don't think it's a Debian bug per-se, but a local installation problem I can't solve). I'm running Debian-1.3 on two machines, my home computer and my work computer. My home computer runs man just fine, but on my

Re: problem with man- it hangs on Debian-1.3

1998-01-08 Thread hawk
Dear Fellow Debian Users: (let me know if I've posted this to the wrong place; I don't think it's a Debian bug per-se, but a local installation problem I can't solve). I'm running Debian-1.3 on two machines, my home computer and my work computer. My home computer runs man just fine,

Re: problem with man- it hangs on Debian-1.3

1998-01-08 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Are you using bash as your shell and have 'set -a' in /etc/profile or in any of your bash startup files? If so, try removing 'set -a' or running man under some other shell. Bash hanging with man when 'set -a' was in use was reported as bug #8390 during last summer. // Heikki -- Heikki