man troubles

[John Andrews <john at triscend dot com>]

Hi All,

I'm sure I've screwed something up here, I'm just not sure what. Whenever I
call man with any argument I get the following error:

$ man man
Error executing formatting or display command.
System command (cd /usr/man ; (echo -e ".pl 1100i"; cat /usr/man/man1/man.1;
ech
o ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | less
-is) e
xited with status 32512.
No manual entry for man

Thanks A Million!!

John E. A.

Here's the man -d man output if you'd like a little more detail:

$ man -d man
Reading config file /usr/lib/man.conf
found man directory /usr/man
found man directory /usr/local/man
found man directory /usr/X11R6/man
found manpath map /bin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /sbin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /usr/bin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /usr/sbin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /usr/local/bin --> /usr/local/man
found manpath map /usr/X11R6/bin --> /usr/X11R6/man
found manpath map /usr/bin/X11 --> /usr/X11R6/man
found manpath map /usr/bin/mh --> /usr/man

using less -is as pager

path directory /usr/local/bin is in the config file
adding /usr/local/man to manpath

path directory /usr/bin is in the config file
adding /usr/man to manpath

path directory /bin is in the config file

path directory /c/Program Files/Triscend/FastChip/bin is not in the config
file
and we found no man directory nearby

path directory /c/diab/4.4a/WIN32/bin is not in the config file
and we found no man directory nearby

path directory /usr/bin is in the config file

path directory %SystemRoot%/system32 is not in the config file
and we found no man directory nearby

path directory %SystemRoot% is not in the config file
and we found no man directory nearby

path directory %SystemRoot%/System32/Wbem is not in the config file
and we found no man directory nearby

path directory /c/PROGRAM FILES/THINKPAD/UTILITIES is not in the config file
and we found no man directory nearby

path directory /c/Program Files/Perforce is not in the config file
and we found no man directory nearby

adding mandatory man directories

will try to write /usr/man/cat1/man.1.gz if needed
status from is_newer() = -2
using default preprocessor sequence
found tbl(1) directive

not executing command:
  (cd /usr/man ; (echo -e ".pl 1100i"; cat /usr/man/man1/man.1; echo ".pl
\n(nlu
+10") | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | less -is)

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