Installing MMIX through emerge and then running "man mmix" shows a bunch of chars on the screen. The same for "info mmix". Man ver. 1.5m Here's the output. -------------------------------- %!PS %%BoundingBox: -57 -46 82 37 %%Creator: MetaPost %%CreationDate: 1999.08.27:2044 %%Pages: 1 %*Font: cmmi10 9.96265 9.96265 0b:e0000000000000004 %%EndProlog %%Page: 1 1 0 0.59776 dtransform truncate idtransform setlinewidth pop [] 0 setdash 1 setlinejoin 10 setmiterlimit newpath 36 0 moveto 36 19.88225 19.88225 36 0 36 curveto -19.88225 36 -36 19.88225 -36 0 curveto -36 -19.88225 -19.88225 -36 0 -36 curveto 19.88225 -36 36 -19.88225 36 0 curveto closepath stroke 0 0.29887 dtransform truncate idtransform setlinewidth pop 1 setlinecap newpath 22.63802 -22.63802 moveto 39.54515 -39.54515 lineto stroke newpath 27.72585 16.00748 moveto 48.4328 27.96262 lineto stroke newpath -32.01495 0 moveto -55.92523 0 lineto stroke 38.65788 -34.48547 moveto ( 13) cmmi10 9.96265 fshow 38.20906 29.04625 moveto ( 14) cmmi10 9.96265 fshow -53.97548 -9.15735 moveto ( 15) cmmi10 9.96265 fshow newpath 45.82025 -45.82025 moveto 66.55875 -25.08176 70.78252 7.0004 56.11823 32.39978 curveto stroke newpath 59.21552 29.86882 moveto 58.21451 30.73936 57.18193 31.58357 56.11823 32.39978 curveto 56.2932 31.07048 56.42639 29.7434 56.51862 28.42 curveto closepath gsave fill grestore stroke newpath 47.23708 -42.07971 moveto 46.80545 -43.33412 46.33333 -44.58153 45.82025 -45.82025 curveto 47.05898 -45.30717 48.27487 -44.75899 49.46709 -44.17719 curveto closepath gsave fill grestore stroke 74.66371 -16.04 moveto (L) cmmi10 9.96265 fshow showpage %%EOF (END)
The man page is a postscript file. I should have a fix for the ebuild shortly.
Fixed in cvs thanks for the bug report.