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From: monty@blackhole.lerc.nasa.gov (Monty Andro)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Problems displaying "man" pages
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Date: 25 Apr 91 11:44:18 GMT
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Reply-To: monty@blackhole.lerc.nasa.gov (Monty Andro)
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Hello,

I'm looking for help on how to display man pages that I down loaded from
uunet.uu.net from the bsd-sources directory.  Specificly, I'm attempting
to display the man page for the "lock" command.  I copied the "lock.1" file
(this looks like the man page) into our /usr/man/man1 directory and typed 
"man lock".  It finds the file ok, but it doesn't display the information
in the proper format.  It just displays a non formated paragraph of the 
text without indentation or titles.  Do I need to do anything special to the
man page before copying it into the man directory ?  Do I have a incompatible
man program ?  My workstation is a Sun386i with SunOS 4.0.2.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  

Thanks in advance,

monty