From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 24 11:33:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA22554 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 11:33:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA22526 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 11:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA16257; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:33:35 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA08394; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:18:26 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970424201826.OF10127@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:18:26 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org (freebsd-hackers) Cc: un_x@anchorage.net (Steve Howe) Subject: Re: manpages References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Steve Howe on Apr 23, 1997 23:50:20 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Steve Howe wrote: > i tried to find out more with "sh -vx", > "man *" still only output "zcat: .../cat/*.1.gz not in gzip format" As somebody else already wrote you, if file(1) tells you just `data' for your cat (or man) files, they are nothing else but horribly broken. If it's only the cat files, simply throw them away, and man(1) will recreate them as required. If it's the man files, you gotta reinstall them. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)