Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/09/17:18:10
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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