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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 11:30:03 +1000 (EST)
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
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On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, un_x wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 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 ...

Well file xxx.1.gz should give "gzip compressed data", so evidently the 
gzip command is not working properly.

Apart from that, I don't know.

Danny