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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:52:58 -0500 (EST)
From:      Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <thelab@portfolios.com>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Man page strangeness
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.961030075218.29651A-100000@dreamlabs.dreaming.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961029230416.369g-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Doug White wrote:

> 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.

Unfortunately, it happens with all man pages.
Sorry for not making that clear. I still haven't figured it out. :(

-Mit

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




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