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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 18:43:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: un_x <un_x@anchorage.net>
cc: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>,
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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:
> 
> > > > /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 ...

If it looks like "data" to file, it's probably corrupted.  Here's how it
should look:

narcissus:{/home/ben}% file /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz: gzip compressed data - deflate method ,
original file name , last modified: Wed Feb 19 14:41:50 1997 os: Unix

Try reinstalling the man distribution.


 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."