Re: NMAP 5.0 man page on Solaris 8 does not display

[Mike Peterson <mikep () noc utoronto ca>]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, David Fifield wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:31:05PM -0400, Mike Peterson wrote:
> > The NMAP 5.0 man page does not display on Solaris 8 - it gives:
> >
> > Reformatting page.  Please Wait...nroff: Out of temp file space; line 
> > 1787, file
> > /opt/local/share/man/man1/nmap.1
> > done
> >
> > Nmap Reference Guide                                      NMAP(1)
> >
> > Looks like the page is too much for 'nroff' to handle.
> > Any ideas?
>
> Some web searching indicates that the Solaris nroff can't handle macro
> names that are longer than two characters. Some of these are inserted by
> the DocBook stylesheets that generate the man page.
>
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6510256
> http://www.mail-archive.com/docbook-apps () lists oasis-open org/msg12270.html
>
> I attached a copy of the man page with those macros removed. Does it
> work for you? We may be able to alter the generation process not to
> include the macros.

Nice catch - that's got it; I just changed the macro names in the
existing 'man' pages: 'toupper' to 'tu' and 'SH-xref' to 'Sx', and
both now display properly.

Thanks!
Mike
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Mike Peterson -- Network Security Specialist -- Computer and Network Services
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