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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <thelab@portfolios.com>
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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote:

> > > zcat: /usr/share/man/cat8/ipfw.8.gz: unexpected end of file.
> 
> Unfortunately, it happens with all man pages.
> Sorry for not making that clear. I still haven't figured it out. :(

Hm.  It sounds like something is going wrong under /usr/share/man.

Try wiping out the /cat? directories.  Those hold the formatted versions
of the files and they may be having trouble too.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major