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Re: man pages



On Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:23:45 +0300 (GMT+0300), Evgeny Stambulchik
wrote:

>"Shlomo Solomon" <solomon@shani.net> wrote:
>> I have a problem seing some MAN pages.
>> 
>
>Run `man -w gcc'  
> If it's truncated, delete it and man will recreate it next time you
>run it 

Thanks - you were right. Many of the files in the *cat1* directory
were bad - length 20 bytes each. I deleted them all and now I can use
*man*  but do you know what could have caused the problem ? I don't
like fixing a problem without knowing what really happend.

Also, I discovered that I can only use *man* when I'm logged in as
*root*. In another login, I get the following message:

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
Error excecuting formatting or display command
System command exited with status 256.

The problem is NOT space, because the *man* program works fine from
*root*. I also checked the permission of the *cat1* directory and
it's "drwxrwxrwx" so I don't know what the problem is.

Any ideas ??
BTW - where would I look for documentation about the error status I
mentioned above ?

TIA


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