Hi Steve Hi Joseph,
Steve Philp wrote:
>
> "Joseph G. Getty" wrote:
> >
> > I'm having a small prob with Xman. I'm running Linux-Mandrake 6.1. Every
> > time I use Xman to open a man page they come up in an encrypted like text.
> > Is this a bug in LM 6.1 or what? Should I reinstall Xman?(wich I cannot
> > find, what is the name of the RPM?)
>
> Could it be caused by the .bz2 compression on the manual pages? Try
Probably bz2 compression is causing this.
> changing to /usr/man/man1 and 'bunzip2' one of the manual pages then try
> viewing that page with xman. If it works, you'll need to bunzip all of
> the manual pages.
I had the same problem with Mandrake 6.0. After installing xman from the
cooker distribution it was solved.
greetings,
Peter
