Subject: Re: bug#5347: 23.1; M-x man: misreports absent man(1) as absent manpage.
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:02:24 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:14:38 -0800 (PST)
> From: [email-masked]
> Cc: 
> 
> On my system, man(1) is not present, but a manpage was.  M-x man RET
> pastebinint RET claimed that the manPAGE was missing, when actually
> man(1) is what was missing.  M-x woman RET pastebinint RET works.

"M-x man" works by invoking man(1), so it cannot work without one
installed.  "M-x woman" (WO == without) does not need man(1),
therefore it still works.

So this is expected.  If you don't have man(1) installed, you should
use WoMan to begin with.