Man command unresponsive

[Matthew Schultz <mschultz@primakoala.com>]

When I type man and nothing else I get "What manual page do you want?" 
so the command is there and working I would deduce. However when I type 
"man ls" or any other command, there is no output at all. I've seached 
google groups but found nothing to help point me in the right direction. 
I'm running Debian 3.0 Stable.

Thanks in advance,

Matthew Schultz