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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
Message-ID:  <19970424201826.OF10127@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970423234744.4337A-100000@aak.anchorage.net>; from Steve Howe on Apr 23, 1997 23:50:20 -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970423234744.4337A-100000@aak.anchorage.net>

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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. ;-)



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