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Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 04:41:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: James McLaughlin <zerotype AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: gz files in man folders
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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While trying to find the file containing the man
information for g++ (which I succeeded in doing), I
noticed that in various subfolders of
c:\cygwin\share\man (in particular man1 and man3) a
lot of the .1 and .3 (and.something else for the other
subfolders) files were gzipped. This surprised me as
they were pretty small files.

Is there any reason why it wouldn't be a good idea to
extract some of these (for convenience next time I'm
looking for things related to man or just "tinkering
under the bonnet")?

Thanks,

James McLaughlin

PS. Thanks to everyone who replied re my last posting.
I couldn't find the newlib folder as described, though
I haven't got the latest version and I may have made a
mistake in deciding what not to install - but thanks anyway!

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