lesss stopped working

Chris Norman cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk
Thu Nov 17 13:45:56 EST 2005


I just tried that command on my machine, and I have to admit it worked.

But doesn't man send stuff through less anyway? Could that be the
problem?

Cheers, HTH,

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[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Igor Gueths
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Subject: Re: lesss stopped working

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Hi Chris. I typed man nmap | less
The output I pastedwas the last few lines.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:32:07PM -0000, Chris Norman wrote:
> What was the command you typed?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Igor Gueths
> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:30 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: lesss stopped working
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> Hi all. This is just one of those things I can't seem to pinpoint...It
> started happening quite suddenly, which adds to its strangeness.
> Whenever I try to page something through Less, I get 
> something like this. I'll use Nmap as an example.
> leges  to  build these custom SYN packets.  This is
>               the default scan type for privileged users.
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> System command (cd /usr/man && (echo ".pl 11i"; /bin/gunzip -c
> '/usr/man/man1/nmap.1.gz') | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -S -mandoc
|
> /usr/bin/less -is) exited with status 36096.
> No manual entry for nmap
> 
> I tried re-installing Nroff/Less from the Slackware-10.0 (I haven't
> gotten around to upgrading this machine) ap/a series, however the
> problem still persists. Any ideas on how to fix this/how 
> it may have started? Thanks!
> 
> - -- 
> Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little
>    security will deserve neither and lose both.
> - -- Benjamin Franklin
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- -- 
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little
   security will deserve neither and lose both.
- -- Benjamin Franklin
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