man man

[Charlse Darwin]

# System's man works just fine
$ /usr/bin/man -v
man, version 1.6c
$ /opt/local/bin/man -v
man, version 1.6f

On Feb 11, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Matrix Mole wrote:

> 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