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Some man pages, for instance zshall, do not work as they should since |
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we .gz our man files. |
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The .so directive in a man file is afaik the mechanism by which one man |
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page can include the contents of another. The processing of the .so |
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directive fails when the file to be included is gzipped. |
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For an example of this, merge zsh-4 and do man zshall ; you will notice |
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that large parts of the document is blank (I'm using most as my pager). |
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It might be that there is a compile-time option to man so that it handles |
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this, I wouldn't know. It might also be that the problem is so tricky to |
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fix that the easiest workaround is to add extra workaround code into the |
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ebuilds for packages that use .so in their man pages. |
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If nobody better qualified comes along within week's end, I'll have a |
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thorough look at the problem. |
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Kind regards, |
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Karl T |