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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:59:00 -0800 (AKDT)
From:      un_x <un_x@anchorage.net>
To:        "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: manpages
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.970423155711.4080D-100000@iceberg>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970424105110.10264U-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>

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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 ...
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