"man" is a port itself. I installed it yesterday. P.S.: I am gonna go ahead and file the ticket. On Feb 12, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Feb 12, 2008, at 05:56, Charlse Darwin wrote:
On Feb 11, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Matrix Mole wrote:
On Feb 11, 2008 7:26 PM, Charlse Darwin wrote:
What happened here?!
$ which man /opt/local/bin/man $ man man
man (1)
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.
# System's man works just fine $ /usr/bin/man -v man, version 1.6c $ /opt/local/bin/man -v man, version 1.6f
So the system's "man" works but the MacPorts-provided "man" doesn't? Then you should file a ticket against whatever port installed "man". (Find out with "port provides /opt/local/bin/man").