X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <47768C42.7050200@veritech.com> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:04:50 -0500 From: "Lee D. Rothstein" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 'makewhatis' coughs on 'wput.1.gz' (on Vista) References: <4774839F.5030900@veritech.com> <073401c84a2d$b1f7a600$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> In-Reply-To: <073401c84a2d$b1f7a600$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.0.1 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Dave Korn wrote: > On 28 December 2007 05:03, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > > >> 'makewhatis ('whereis' and 'apropos' database setup script) generates >> the following errors: >> >> $ makewhatis >> >> gzip: /usr/share/man/man1/./wput.1.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error >> >> gzip: /usr/share/man/man1/./wput.1.gz: invalid compressed data--length error >> >> Reinstall of 'man' and 'wput' does not help. >> >> Anybody know what the problem is? >> > ... > > It's been d2u'd, which isn't the right thing to do with a compressed file! > > cheers, > DaveK > d2u -- (in this instance) not a good idea d2me (Dave to Me) -- great idea! Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/