Hi, On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:32:43 -0400 Ken Schneider <.> wrote: <...>
These are of course the man pages. They are in troff format and gziped to save space. I tried opening a few and you may have a problem if the file is a link to another man page. Another such man page is /usr/share/man/man1/lastb.1.gz If you look at the contents of the file with less you will find it contains: .so man1/last.1 which links it to last.1. I would guess that MC cannot handle that kind of link but man understands it.
Thanks for your response! There is still something I didn't get concerning a particular man page. On my 9.1 there is a file sitting in a strange folder: balazs@khazad-dum:~> dir /usr/share/man/cat8 total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3052 2005-02-18 18:43 saslauthd.8.gz balazs@khazad-dum:~> rpm -qf /usr/share/man/cat8/saslauthd.8.gz cyrus-sasl-2.1.18-33.8 I remember seeing such temp-folders while rebuilding packages, but why this above rpm has that page in such a fancy subfolder and why not simply in ./man8 ? In fact calling "man 8 saslauthd.8.gz" works well, so my system at least _does find_ that file. Is it just (probably) an accident, or supposed be like that? Thanks, Pelibali