Hello,
On freshly-installed OpenBSD 5.7, I found that any compressed manpage
isn't be displayed;
# uname -a
OpenBSD nimbus5.localnet 5.7 GENERIC#738 i386
# sysctl kern.version
kern.version=OpenBSD 5.7 (GENERIC) #738: Sun Mar 8 10:59:31 MDT 2015
[email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
# man ls
LS(1) General Commands Manual
LS(1)
NAME
ls - list directory contents
SYNOPSIS
ls [-1AaCcdFfgHhikLlmnopqRrSsTtux] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
For each operand that names a file of a type other than directory, ls
displays its name as well as any requested, associated information.
For
each named directory, ls displays the names of files contained within
that directory, as well as any requested, associated information.
If no operands are given, the contents of the current directory are
displayed. If more than one operand is given, non-directory operands
are
displayed first; directory and non-directory operands a sorted sepa-
....
# gzip /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1
# ls /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1*
/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz
# man ls
wait: No child processes
#
Of course, /etc/man.conf has been untouched ever.
Yoshihiro Kawamata
[email protected]
http://fuguita.org/