From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 19 12:38:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8200537B479 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:38:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA29887 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:38:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA23872 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:37:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G2OZVE00.S9G; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:38:02 -0400 Message-ID: <39EF4DAB.BABA081A@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:38:19 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bigotfo@bigfoot.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: man2html misses lines and man man2html fails References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Murphy wrote: > > Using FreeBSD-4.1 and man2html via man.cgi I find that when it > converts man pages (eg: tcpdump) that have page numbering, it > misses the last line of text above the page break, and the first > line of text below the page break. > > Unfortunately #man man2html fails with: > zcat: /usr/local/man/cat1/man2html.1.gz: not in gzip format > > #cd /usr/local/man/cat1 > #file man2html.1.gz > man2html.1.gz: data > > Any clues appreciated > John. Try looking at the first few lines of the file. That should give you a clue what type of file it is. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message