man page percent indicator absent

[selcuk_1]

I am using HP-UX B.11.11 U 9000/800.

when I display a man page, I could not see the percent indicatior at the left bottom.

It just says "standard input". when I press p key (to say explicitly, I want to see percent ) man says "Don't know length of file (press RETURN)"

How can I see the percent of a displaed man page.. ?

TIA

[Eric Antunes]

Hi,

I have the same behaviour.

You can set PAGER before using man:

#export PAGER="pg -c"

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes

[Keith Bryson]

I'm not sure, but I think that you only normally get the man-page percentage when displaying it for the first time (because catman is creating and showing the formatted page for the first time). Subsequent mans on that page directly use that formatted page and the percentage banner disappears....

HTH - Keith

[Keith Bryson]

To prove a point, if you remove the /usr/share/man/cat{sectionname}.Z/{manpage}.{sectionname} file, the % figure re-appears for one-time only, until catman re-creates the removed file:

For example

man ndd
rm /usr/share/man/cat1m.Z/ndd.1m
man ndd # % figure shows
man ndd # % figure not there now....!

I'm not suggesting you do this each time though!!!

Keith

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

As mentioned, a formatted man page (in the cat*Z directories) won't show the percentage. You can fix this by simply removing the cat*Z directories in /usr/man/share as in:

rm -rf /usr/share/man/cat*Z

Now, every man page will be formatted when used , the % value will be shown and when done, the result is thrown away. This has a small advantage and disadvantage: advantage is that less space is needed for the man pages but disadvantage is slower man page response.

You may never use man again once you use vi to read (and search) man pages. I've attached a script called viman.

[selcuk_1]

I am strange to pg so I prefer man default behaviour..

I have already removed cat*Z files. But behavior has not changed.. Now I suspect manX.z files

should I remove them too ..!

[selcuk_1]

i could find no sol..