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To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
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Subject: Re: manpages
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On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:

> > > /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'

file xxx.1.gz - gives "file.1.gz: data"
rm-ing catpages doesn't change anything.
zcat still fails ...
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