Problem with a large number of man pages that reference other man pages

Lee D.Rothstein lee@veritech.com
Fri Mar 13 22:49:00 GMT 2009


A huge number (575) of 'man' pages, that reference other man pages using a
'.so' (source include) reference, fail to work because the plain text files
have the '.gz' extension appended without actually being gzipped. Could
this be due to a mishap in or with the 'cygport' package?

Each reference appears to be okay (I've only tested a handful), if you
remove the '.gz' extension.

Attached is a list of such man page error messages with a few of them
actually verified to have the situation I describe above.

Lee
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