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From: meyer@claude.ifi.unizh.ch (Urs Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: man(1) bug
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.130601.1780@ifi.unizh.ch>
Date: 12 Apr 91 13:06:01 GMT
Sender: meyer@ifi.unizh.ch (Urs Meyer)
Reply-To: meyer@ifi.unizh.ch (Urs Meyer)
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
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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