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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:04:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <thelab@portfolios.com>
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On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I just upgraded my home system from 2.1.5 to 2.2 current (well, six days
> ago current) via a make world and a total re-install of /etc, and now
> everytime i try the 'man' command, i get the following error:
> 
> zcat: /usr/share/man/cat8/ipfw.8.gz: unexpected end of file.
> 
> /man8/ipfw.8.gz is there, complete, and unformatted, and the
> /cat8/ipfw.8.gz is a zero length file. 

What happens if you gunzip ipfw.8.gz?  

Your copy may be corrupted.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major