From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 04:53:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA14183 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 04:53:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from dreamlabs.dreaming.org (root@dreamlabs.dreaming.org [207.107.8.200]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA14170 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 04:53:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from dreamlabs.dreaming.org (thelab@dreamlabs.dreaming.org [207.107.8.200]) by dreamlabs.dreaming.org (8.7.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA29654; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:52:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:52:58 -0500 (EST) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe X-Sender: thelab@dreamlabs.dreaming.org To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Man page strangeness In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > >