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From: Michael Park <mpark@corp.idt.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: XTERM Problems
Date: 29 May 1997 15:03:21 GMT
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i am running freebsd 2.2.1 ,.
X is running the afterstep wm.

when i have 7 or less xterm windows open, i can view all the man pages for
anything i want.. however when i open an 8th xterm window, i can view some
man pages but for most, i get the following error message.

Cannot fork
Error executing formatting or display command.
system command exited with status 512

has anyone else experienced this problem? if so does anyone know of a
solution?

thanks..