Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:52:40 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: un_x <un_x@anchorage.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: manpages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970424105110.10264U-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970423153806.4080B-100000@iceberg>
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On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, un_x wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, un_x wrote: > > > > can anyone tell me how i might get manpages to work? > > > > /usr/share/man/cat* should be owned by man.bin, mode 755 > > /usr/bin/man should be owned by man.bin, mode 4555 (-r-sr-xr-x) > > yes - that is correct, my problem is that something is translating > my manpages into non-gzip catpages. i can go in as root and > cannot gzip -d any catpages. though they end in .gz and > look ok. when executing a man command, zcat fails trying > to unzip the cat page "not in gzip format". What do you get if you do a 'file xxx.1.gz' If you rm xxx.1.gz and do 'man 1 xxx' Danny
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