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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: un_x <un_x@anchorage.net>
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Subject: Re: manpages
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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