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RE: 'man' and Funny Characters
- From: "Bernard A Badger" <bab at vx dot com>
- To: "Jelks Cabaniss" <jelks at jelks dot nu>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:09:04 -0400
- Subject: RE: 'man' and Funny Characters
Works for me.
Looks like file corruption (download errors, virus, disk failure, etc.).
See if you have the right file sizes:
$ ls -l /usr/man/cat1/man.1.gz /usr/man/cat1/xsltproc.1.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 bab DomUsers 3526 Jul 9 14:58 /usr/man/cat1/man.1.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 bab DomUsers 2335 Jul 9 14:58
/usr/man/cat1/xsltproc.1.gz
Checksum:
$ sum /usr/man/cat1/man.1.gz /usr/man/cat1/xsltproc.1.gz
62416 4 /usr/man/cat1/man.1.gz
11585 3 /usr/man/cat1/xsltproc.1.gz
May be a problem with
gzip 1.3.3-1
$ sum /usr/bin/gzip.exe
02681 58
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Jelks Cabaniss
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 1:07 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: 'man' and Funny Characters
>
>
> 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,
>
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