Running catman -w ..I get this message

[jazz_1]

stdin: not in compressed format


what does it mean?

cheers,

J

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

It would appear some the manuals were not compressed. Or at least one. You may get an error message when you use the affected man page.

I would run some tests.

It could be man pages delivered by third parties in the wrong format.

SEP

[jazz_1]

Thanks SEP,

what tests could I run?


J

[Steven E. Protter]

Test the man pages.

You might want to script it.

I'd be thorough and picka reasonable sample.

man tar
man catman

It might be just one file, which means you can probably afford to deal with it when its discovered.

It might be a bigger problem that requires reinstallation of software or at least the man page portions.

What man page is broken will determine what corrective action is needed.

SEP

[RAC_1]

It would be easy to goto dir /usr/share/man and look for uncompressed file.

find /usr/share/man/*.Z -type f ! -name *.Z -print \;

Anil

[jazz_1]

thanks guys

[Amit Agarwal_1]

Further to it, if you don't mind doing dirty things yourself, you can compress the file and rename it and continue with catman.

Let's say xyz.n is in uncompressed format.

$ compress xyz.n
$ ls
xyz.n.Z
$ mv xyz.n.Z xyz.n
$ catman ......

Please take a back up if you are unsure of what you are doing.

[jazz_1]

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