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From: "Bernard A Badger" <bab AT vx DOT com>
To: "Daniel Giron" <random_dg AT hotmail DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: multiple errors with man
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 17:20:55 -0400
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The /usr/man/cat1/*.gz files are "cached" versions of the /usr/man/man1/ files.
They print out faster, since the formatting has already been done.
They may be removed, and will be regenerated from the /usr/man/man1 files.

(Just to check that there aren't any non-matching files, do this:

To check that all /usr/man/cat1/*.gz files correspond to 
non-null /usr/man/man1 files:

cd /usr/man/cat1
for fi in *.gz
do 
[[ -s /usr/man/man1/${fi%.gz} ]] || ls -l /usr/man/man1/${fi%.*} $fi
done

)
If anything pops up, investigate it before removing.

Or you can remove all matching files with:
cd /usr/man/cat1
for fi in *.gz
do 
[[ -s /usr/man/man1/${fi%.gz} ]] && rm $fi
done

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Daniel Giron
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 11:35 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: multiple errors with man
> 
> 
> Hi,
> Someone has already mentioned funny characters in man on the mailing list, 
> and I encountered it as well. Example:
> 
> $ man sdiff
> 
> gzip: /usr/man/cat1/sdiff.1.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error
> 
> gzip: /usr/man/cat1/sdiff.1.gz: invalid compressed data--length error
> 
> Some man pages work flawlessly, some crap out with these messages and 
> others, and others work without errors, but they're unreadable as well. I've 
> been getting these errors under cmd.exe, sh and bash. Is there any 
> workaround or new feature that solves this, or do the man pages themselves 
> need fixing?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Daniel
> 
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