Strange Man error

[bossa nova]

anyone seen this?

[MyComputer:~] ME% man pdisk
mdoc warning: Unknown list type `-compact’ (or missing list type)
in .Bl request

Usage: .Bl {-hang | -ohang | -tag | -diag | -inset}
[-width <string>]
[-offset <string>] [-compact]
.Bl -column [-offset <string>] <string1> <string2> …
.Bl {-item | -enum [-nested] | -bullet | -hyphen | -dash}
[-offset <string>] [-compact] (#42)
mdoc error: .It without preceding .Bl (#43)
mdoc warning: .It requests in lists of type `’
require arguments (#43)
mdoc error: .It without preceding .Bl (#45)
mdoc warning: .It requests in lists of type `’
require arguments (#45)
mdoc error: .It without preceding .Bl (#47)
mdoc warning: .It requests in lists of type `’
require arguments (#47)
mdoc warning: extraneous .El call (#49)

[zo]

never seen, but mdoc is the tool used to format (and display?) the man-pages. if other man-pages are still working is your pdisk-manpage defect. if man doesn’t work at all, mdoc seems to be the problem; you might have to reinstall it. but i don’t know how to do this (how to reinstall just some of the BSD-tools instead of doing a new system install); you could try to install the appropriate package with fink.

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