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Re: man dd <-- broke



On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:26:46PM -0500, William Jensen (jensenb@bodach.com) wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I just did a man dd and received:
> 
> 
> gzip: /var/cache/man/cat1/dd.1.gz: not in gzip format
> Manual page dd(1) line ?/? (END)
> 
> I haven't done anything to the system.  info dd works though.  Any ideas what
> might cause this 'sudden' change?

I believe you can delete the /var/cache/man entries without harm.  The
man pages themselves are stored under /usr/man/*.  Only the
preformatted cached versions are kept under /var.



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