commit b763f1e0b89a00b561a1f6999005f3fdc0315c45 parent c383979b0128640f4c658acdd0a383430b49f1da Author: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:31:13 -0400 page(1): mention ghostscript, /dev/fd Diffstat:
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diff --git a/man/man1/page.1 b/man/man1/page.1 @@ -270,3 +270,31 @@ document references cannot be sent via plumbing messages. .PP There are too many keyboard commands and menu items. +.PP +Displaying a PostScript or PDF file depends both on having +GhostScript +(see +.IR gs (1)) +installed and on the underlying operating system +providing a file descriptor device tree at +.BR /dev/fd . +.PP +Some FreeBSD installations +do not provide file descriptors greater than 2 +in +.BR /dev/fd . +To fix this, add +.IP +.EX +/fdescfs /dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0 +.EE +.LP +to +.BR /etc/fstab , +and then +.B mount +.BR /dev/fd . +(Adding the line to +.B fstab +ensures causes FreeBSD to mount the file system +automatically at boot time.)