Forwarding message that I accidentally sent only to Charlse without cc'ing the list on. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matrix Mole <matrixm@gmail.com> Date: Feb 11, 2008 7:52 PM Subject: Re: man man To: Charlse Darwin <macports.users@gmail.com> On Feb 11, 2008 7:26 PM, Charlse Darwin <macports.users@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