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From:	"Bernard A Badger" <bab AT vx DOT com>
To:	"Jelks Cabaniss" <jelks AT jelks DOT nu>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: 'man' and Funny Characters
Date:	Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:09:04 -0400
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Works for me.
Looks like file corruption (download errors, virus, disk failure, etc.).

See if you have the right file sizes:
$ ls -l /usr/man/cat1/man.1.gz /usr/man/cat1/xsltproc.1.gz
-r--r--r--    1 bab      DomUsers     3526 Jul  9 14:58 /usr/man/cat1/man.1.gz
-r--r--r--    1 bab      DomUsers     2335 Jul  9 14:58
/usr/man/cat1/xsltproc.1.gz

Checksum:
$ sum /usr/man/cat1/man.1.gz /usr/man/cat1/xsltproc.1.gz
62416     4 /usr/man/cat1/man.1.gz
11585     3 /usr/man/cat1/xsltproc.1.gz

May be a problem with
gzip                1.3.3-1

$ sum  /usr/bin/gzip.exe
02681    58

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Jelks Cabaniss
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 1:07 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: 'man' and Funny Characters
>
>
> I just "upgraded" some packages which became available within the last
> week, and I don't know if this problem existed before, but I've
> certainly never seen it with the man pages I've used.
>
> A number of the man pages now display funny characters in Bash on WinXP.
> 'man man' or 'man xsltproc' (to name a few) display incomprehensible
> pages, notable for their numerous highlighted ^@ characters.
>
> After quitting man in such cases, I get the messages
>
> 	gzip: /usr/man/cat1/man.1.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error
> 	gzip: /usr/man/cat1/man.1.gz: invalid compressed data--length
> error
>
> OTOH, 'man ls' (for example) displays just fine and I get no such
> messages.
>
> Any ideas?  I've checked the FAQ and Google, but found nothing of help.
> Thanks,
>


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