R devel - Oct 2006 - malformed manual page with 'man R' (PR#9327)

I get a malformed manual page with 'man R':


WARNING:(1)                    FSF                    WARNING:(1)

NAME
       WARNING: - a language for data analysis and graphics

SYNOPSIS
       R [options] [< infile] [> outfile]
       R CMD command [arguments]

DESCRIPTION
       WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME

       Start  R, a system for statistical computation and graphics, with the
specified options, or invoke an
       R tool via the 'R CMD' interface.

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Version:
 platform = i686-pc-linux-gnu
 arch = i686
 os = linux-gnu
 system = i686, linux-gnu
 status = 
 major = 2
 minor = 4.0
 year = 2006
 month = 10
 day = 03
 svn rev = 39566
 language = R
 version.string = R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)

Locale:
LC_CTYPE=nl_NL at euro;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=nl_NL at
euro;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=nl_NL at euro;LC_MESSAGES=nl_NL at
euro;LC_PAPER=nl_NL at
euro;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=nl_NL at
euro;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:utils, package:datasets,
package:graphics, package:grDevices, Autoloads, package:base