Fwd: man man

[Matrix Mole]

Forwarding message that I accidentally sent only to Charlse without
cc'ing the list on.


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From: Matrix Mole <matrixm at gmail.com>
Date: Feb 11, 2008 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: man man
To: Charlse Darwin <macports.users at gmail.com>


On Feb 11, 2008 7:26 PM, Charlse Darwin <macports.users at gmail.com> wrote:
> What happened here?!
>
> $ which man
> /opt/local/bin/man
> $ man man
>
> man
> (1)
<output snipped>

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that man isn't sending the
output to a troff processor properly. The output you pasted in your
message looks like formatting code, I'm guessing it's the formatting
code of an official man page before it gets processed properly by the
man program.

Unfortunately, I have no clue how to fix it. On my system, the only
man program that exists is in /usr/bin, you might try using
/usr/bin/man man and see what you get for output. Then perhaps use
'file /opt/local/bin/man' and 'file /usr/bin/man' and check the
differences. Not sure if diff would help in this case other than to
tell you that they are different binaries.

Matrix Mole