man(1) bug

[Dave Ciemiewicz]

In article <1991Apr12.130601.1780 at ifi.unizh.ch>, meyer at claude.ifi.unizh.ch (Urs Meyer) writes:
|> There is a bug in /usr/bin/man in the mechanism that determines how a
|> man page should be processed.  It seems to reformat a man page, if there
|> is a .TH line somewhere at the beginning of the file.  Unfortunately, 
|> in rn.1 (Larry Wall's news reader), the .TH is as far as line 86 from
|> the beginning of the file.  The man program doesn't look that deep into 
|> a man page and prints it using cat which is rather uncomfortable to read.
|> 
|> Temporary fix: move the .TH line to the beginning of the man page.
|> Seems to work this way.
|> 
|> Urs Meyer

Thanks for the note.  The problem is that the 3.3.x version of the man
command doesn't recognize the NROFF/TROFF comment style used on the rn.1.
This has been fixed in the upcoming major release.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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