On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 00:25 +0200, pelibali wrote:
Hi,
On my SUSE 9.1 system there are plenty of smaller man-files laying in various subfolders of /usr/share/man/. Midnight Commander doesn't display them, just dies with an error, but from command-line with "man x whatever" all of these files look OK! What they are? I mean in which format and why they are so small? Why mc could have serious problem with them?
These are of course the man pages. They are in troff format and gziped to save space. I tried opening a few and you may have a problem if the file is a link to another man page. Another such man page is /usr/share/man/man1/lastb.1.gz If you look at the contents of the file with less you will find it contains: .so man1/last.1 which links it to last.1. I would guess that MC cannot handle that kind of link but man understands it. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge