[uw.mfcf.bugs] minor man bug

dgharriss@watmath.waterloo.edu (Dermot G. Harriss) (08/28/89)

man segmentation faults when it can't find the pager specified 
by $MANPAGER

kcwellsch@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Wellsch) (08/28/89)

> man segmentation faults when it can't find the pager specified 
> by $MANPAGER

MAN seems to get into a very bizarre state when the execl of PAGER fails. 
My simple fix is to do an "access" to see if the PAGER program exists.

kcwellsch@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Wellsch) (08/28/89)

> > man segmentation faults when it can't find the pager specified by $MANPAGER

> MAN seems to get into a very bizarre state when the execl of PAGER fails. 
> My simple fix is to do an "access" to see if the PAGER program exists.

I take that back.  MAN does a 'sh -c "$MANPAGER"' so PAGER can be relative.
Naturally an "access" can't be used.  Oh well, back to the old drawing board.