I can't use command "man"

[Rick Stevens]

Huan Deng wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote: 
> 
> 
>>Make sure you have an /etc/man.config file and that it is readable to
>>all users (minimum of 644 or "-rw-r--r--").  An "ls -l /etc/man.config"
>>should result in something like:
>>
>>[rick at prophead rick]$ ls -l /etc/man*
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4568 Oct 13  2003 /etc/man.config
>>
>>You may want to reinstall the "man" RPM.
>>
> 
>   Thanks a lot. I reinstall "man" rpm , and all users can use command "man".
>   But there is still a little problem . I input "man ls" , a message pops up:
>  
>       gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe 
>    
>       gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe 
>       grotty: <standard input>:2585:fatal error: output error
> 
>   Usually the message is ignored by the system , and the command runs well.
>   I want to know if the message doesnt matter and how to correct it. 

This was 8.0, right?  There is a glitch in the man scripts that causes
that message.  It's not fatal and you can safely ignore it.  I never
did figure out exactly what it was, but it has to do with man passing
an extra space character to the gunzip command line before displaying
the text.

As I said, you can ignore it.
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