Re: help with man pages

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

Isn't it 'set -a' not 'set -e'? Otherwise I think what Karl is saying
should fix the bug.

Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@inetarena.com> wrote
> 
> >>>>> "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.

// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen                  * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland



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