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From: Patrice Belleville
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 04:25

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Hi!

	I recently upgraded to 3.0 (using builddisk) and it seems that man is
(sometimes) broken. If a do a `man crontab', it complains that

	"Reformatting page.  Wait...can't open file man8/cron.8
	 done"

and then creates an empty file  crontab.5 (owned by myself) in /usr/man/cat5.
I have checked that /usr/man/man8/cron.8 is  world-readable (and indeed doing
`man cron' works as expected).  Does anyone have  an idea as to what is going
on?    I   can   reproduce   the   problem   at   will   (by   removing   the
/usr/man/cat5/crontab.5) on entry `crontab', and  on `bootptab' as well. Both
problem seem  to occur at the ".so man8/xxx" line, but the entry for `a.out',
which contains ".so man5/yyy"  works fine  [I am not familiar with  nroff, so
maybe the problem is obvious].
								      Patrice



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From: patrice@cs.sfu.ca (Patrice Belleville)
Subject: Man : Another 3.0 bug?
Message-ID: <1992Oct7.042508.29269@cs.sfu.ca>
Summary: man crontab won't work.
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 04:25:08 GMT
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