4.7: Odd 'man' behavior

2002-12-02 Thread Clint Olsen
It's possible this is cockpit fog, but I didn't notice this until I upgraded to 4.7. Certain manpages are being rendered in such a way that when I type 'q' to exit my PAGER (less), the pager returns to the beginning of the document as if it doesn't exit. But what appears to be happening is that

Re: 4.7: Odd 'man' behavior

2002-12-02 Thread Marco Radzinschi
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Clint Olsen wrote: It's possible this is cockpit fog, but I didn't notice this until I upgraded to 4.7. Certain manpages are being rendered in such a way that when I type 'q' to exit my PAGER (less), the pager returns to the beginning of the document as if it doesn't

Re: 4.7: Odd 'man' behavior

2002-12-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 02), Marco Radzinschi said: On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Clint Olsen wrote: It's possible this is cockpit fog, but I didn't notice this until I upgraded to 4.7. Certain manpages are being rendered in such a way that when I type 'q' to exit my PAGER (less), the pager

Re: 4.7: Odd 'man' behavior

2002-12-02 Thread Clint Olsen
On Dec 02, Dan Nelson wrote: 38704 is /bin/sh, which spawned 37085, which is writing to your TTY. Do you maybe have two thttpd manpages, possibly an uncompressed and a compressed version? When you hit q in less, it exits, and the only way it could return to the beginning of the document if

Re: 4.7: Odd 'man' behavior

2002-12-02 Thread Alex(ander Sendzimir)
I experience the same symptoms, so I'll third this topic. I've noticed that it appears to happen only with man pages that belong to the system. When I man a non-system manpage, it works as expected whether running with X or without. (I was wondering if it might be X related. Just a thought.