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From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: man displays pages twice!
In-Reply-To: <199909241918.MAA03726@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Sep 24, 1999 12:18:55 pm"
To: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 18:00:58 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: pir@pir.net (Peter Radcliffe), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG,
	mpp@FreeBSD.ORG
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> > "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> probably said:
> > > > now, each man command brings up a man page twice! what have i done?
> > > 
> > > Look in /usr/share/man/man7, see if you have files that end with and
> > > without .gz, if so you ran one install with NOMANCOMPRESS and one
> > > without it.
> > 
> > ] globbing /usr/share/man/man1/man.1*
[snip]
> > ] trying command: /usr/bin/zcat /usr/share/man/cat1/man.1.gz | more
> > 
> > I've had this problem for a while and never found the time to go
> > through the man source and work out just why it is inclined to
> > show me the same file twice.
> > Removing the older of the compressed and uncompressed does indeed
> > solve the symptom, but that behaviour is still wrong - those two
> > commands are showing exactly the same file.
> 
> Hummm... hey mpp, is this the functionality that we talked about
> that Berkeley man had in that it would show you all sections of
> the manual that had a page by the same name gone haywire in GNU's
> version of man???

Not quite, I think, but it may be some half-baked attempt
by the GNU man to do so.  Or more likely an artifact of adding
compressed man pages after the original version
was written.

-Mike
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Mike Pritchard
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