On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:12:19PM +0200, Wolf Canis wrote:

> Michael George wrote:
> |
> | It was /etc/man-conf.  A change in the NROFF definition caused the
> | problem.  Running dispatch-conf didn't prompt me for the config change,
> | so I ran etc-update this time and found it.
> |
> | Hopefully this will be helpful for someone.
> Hello,
> yes it's helpful, but I used etc-update and was to fast and
> can't remember what are the changes. Could you give me an idea of the
> working NROFF definition?
>
> For now, I solved it by changing the MANPAGER variable to "less". I had
> set MANPAGER to "vimmanpager". Perhaps I have a additional  problem?

I searched for NROFF in /etc/man-conf and found a note saying to add
"-c" if something had a specific version.  I tried that and it works
now.  There may be otehr fixesm but that works for me.  Just edit it
and look for NROFF, it's in a comment.

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