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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:35:38AM -0400, Lee D.Rothstein wrote:
> A large number (575) of 'man' pages, that reference other man pages using a
> '.so' (source include) reference, fail to work because the plain text files
> have the '.gz' extension appended without actually being gzipped. Could
> this be due to a mishap in or with the 'cygport' package?
>
> Each reference appears to be okay (I've only tested a handful), iff you
> remove the '.gz' extension.
>
> Following is a list of such man page error messages with a few of them
> actually verified to have the situation I describe above.

Please stop repeating the same message.

cgf

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