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Re: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?


Larry Hall wrote:
I haven't seen that, but when I try to use 'man', I get this error:

troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P-c -mandoc': No such file or directory

I've tried tracking down this problem, presumably in one of the shell scripts (such as /usr/bin/nroff), without luck.

Just a WAG but I'd suggest checking you '/usr/sharemisc/man.conf' file for it's NROFF settings. Looks like yours is adding a '-P' option without proper spacing.

It's got this:


NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc

/usr/bin/nroff has this inside:

  case $1 in
    -c)
      opts="$opts -P-c" ;;
    -h)
      opts="$opts -P-h" ;;

adding spaces between -P and {-c,-h} gives this error:

troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P -c -mandoc': No such file or directory

Adding -x to #!/bin/sh in /usr/bin/nroff suggests that for "man foo" the "foo" doesn't make it into the call to groff at the end of the script and that the additional args are being passed as a single argument:

CHerborth@qnxws7083 [502]: man bash
+ prog=/usr/bin/nroff
+ opts=
+ opts= -P-c
+ shift
+ opts= -P-c -mandoc
+ shift
+ : /usr/bin
+ export GROFF_BIN_PATH
+ PATH=/usr/bin:/c/emacs-21.3/bin:/cygdrive/d/cherborth/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/
bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/d/cherborth/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/s
ystem32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Progra
m Files/ATI Technologies/ATI Control Panel:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common File
s/GTK/2.0/bin:.:/cygdrive/c/QNX6.3.0/host/win32/x86/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/QNX Software Systems/bin groff -mtty-char -Tascii -P-c -mandoc
troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P-c -mandoc': No such file or directory


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Chris Herborth (cherborth@qnx.com)
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