Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:02:58 +0200 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@FreeBSD.org> To: Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie@kode5.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem with zcat uncompressing man pages Message-ID: <20120926170258.GI69724@acme.spoerlein.net> In-Reply-To: <20120925115801.GE6954@kontrol.kode5.net> References: <20120925115801.GE6954@kontrol.kode5.net>
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On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 12:58:01 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > Hi > > When I read 'certain' -- not all -- man pages zcat writes a small error to stderr when opening the man page; however, the man page does actually open. The message i get on the terminal is: > > zcat: error writing to output: Broken pipe > zcat: /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz: uncompress failed > > When closing the man page, another message is shown on stderr: > > grotty:<standard input> (<standard input>):54131:fatal error: output error > > > Would anyone here know the possible cause and fix for this issue? Well, what is /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz? ls -l /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz file /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz zcat /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz | head -5 xxd /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz | head It looks like you simple have a garbled manpage, and the catpage is displayed instead. Cheers Uli
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