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Anyone seen this one?  I'm running jbase on Linux.  I try
"man jbc" from an 80x40 xterm window and I see the expected
man page.  I resize the window to 100x40 and try "man jbc"
and get an error saying no such man page found.  I resize
back to 80x40 and the man page magically reappears.  Further
inspection indicates any width over 80 causes the jbase
man pages to disappear.

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Terry Layne
Portland, OR

Hey, Terry,

I tried this yesterday at work, and could not reproduce what you found (tried
both with Linux and AIX). What versions of Jbase/Linux are you running? What is
your MANPATH set to?

Regards,
Charlie Noah

Charlie,

I'm running jbase 3.41 (for RH7.1) on Slackware 8.0.  MANPATH
is not the problem.  I just tried xterm, Eterm, and gnome-terminal
and all gave the same buggy results ("man jbc" works at 80x25
but not after resizing, then works again when I resize back
to 80x25.)  It sure feels like it a problem with jbase's
man pages, since no other man pages have this problem.  Do
you know if the jbase man pages reformat properly to wider
than 80 columns on RH or AIX?

I'm still a member of the Unemployment SIG, and there have been
a few Unidata/Jbase openings out here, so I've been doing a
bunch of Basic hacking lately.  Today I wrote a 700 line program
that generates source code for a data entry screen and the
sucker actually compiled on the first try.  I only had a
couple of bugs to fix before it was actually generating
working programs.  I should go buy a lottery ticket!

Terry

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Terry Layne
Portland, OR

Remember the old saying "The harder you work the luckier you get".  Forget
the lottery ticket.
BobJ

Quote:> that generates source code for a data entry screen and the
> sucker actually compiled on the first try.  I only had a
> couple of bugs to fix before it was actually generating
> working programs.  I should go buy a lottery ticket!

> Terry

Terry,

Is it just man jbc, or does it do the same with anything? Try man LIST. On a
larger screen, the page didn't reformat, just displayed as if it were 80 col.


responsive and knowledgeable.

I hope the unemployment syndrome doesn't last too long. I wish we could get you
in here, but, alas, no-one's willing to give up their spot.  :^(

BTW, I never lose money when I buy lottery tickets - I never buy them.

Charlie

Quote:

> BTW, I never lose money when I buy lottery tickets - I never buy them.

> Charlie

An old Chinese proverb says:
   He who buys too many lottery tickets is a fool, but he who buys none is a
bigger fool.
   If your wife is like mine, she buys one or two and keeps us from being
bigger fools.
   BobJ

I figured as much.  I think I've found the answer.  The man
pages provided with the developer version are in cat format,
meaning they've been formatted for viewing.  Typically you'll
have both man and cat versions, and if the cat version was
formatted for a different screen size then the man version is
used and reformatted on the fly.  The man version has all the
troff (or groff) codes.  There should be a way to force man
to use the cat version, but I haven't found it.

Quote:

> BTW, I never lose money when I buy lottery
> tickets - I never buy them.

Yep.  Like someone sig I recall seeing says, "The Lottery:
A tax on people who are bad at math."

Terry