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From: lim@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Carmay Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Upgrading to latest SNAP
Date: 18 Feb 1995 04:57:19 GMT
Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica
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arg@pencotts.demon.co.uk wrote:
:
: 3) Not quite clear how it happened, but I ended up with two sets of
:    manpages - /usr/share/man/man1/xxxx.1 and /usr/share/man/man1/xxxx.1.gz

    Sounds like the update installed the new man pages as uncompressed
files, but your /etc/weekly cron job had previously compressed your
existing ones, so now you have two copies of each.