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