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From: "Jelks Cabaniss" <jelks AT jelks DOT nu>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: 'man' and Funny Characters
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 01:06:42 -0400
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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,


/Jelks







	


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