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Re: help with man pages



>>>>> "frankk" == frankk  <frankk@sparc.nic.bc.ca> writes:

    frankk> 	I have installed Debian 1.3 and have a problem to see
    frankk> man pages. If I try to see any man page (e.g man man), I
    frankk> can only see the following :

 There is a bug in Bash-2.0 that causes this.  Remove any calls to
`set -e' and `set +e'[1] in your "/etc/profile", and "~/.bash*" files,
and explicitly `export' each of the variables that would have been
exported implicitly by the `set -e'.  After you log back in, `man'
should work again.


Footnotes: 
[1]  To find out what that did, do `help set' at a shell prompt.

Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@inetarena.com>
http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg
Portland, OR  USA
Debian GNU 1.3  Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133

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