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Patrice Belleville writes
    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"
    . . . .

This sounds like a bug in the "man" command.  A workaround is to run  
/usr/etc/catman, which seems to handle these man pages correctly.  Catman  
creates preformatted versions of all the man pages, which takes up a couple of  
megs.  If you don't want all the man pages converted, you can specify which  
sections catman should work on.  For example,

	/usr/etc/catman -n 5

will make the crontab and bootptab man pages display properly.  (The "-n" just  
tells catman not to write to /usr/man/whatis, a file that nonroot users can't  
write to anyway.)

--Kathy
NeXT Tech Pubs