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From: bennett@uahtitan.ai.mit.edu (Mark Bennett)
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Subject: Son of "M-x manual-entry"
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Hello again -

	A couple days ago I posted a problem I was having when using
M-x manual-entry. The results I get back are unreadable.

Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@diku.dk> suggested that the entries in
the /usr/cat? directories may be in compressed format. This turned out
to be completely correct.

My question now is "has anybody else found a good solution to this
problem"?

I already have (autoload 'uncompress-while-visiting "uncompress") in
my .emacs file, but I guess since the manual entries don't end in .Z
this does not work.

I also thought to change the variable manual-program from "/bin/man"
to some kind of uncompress, but when I use M-x set-variable
manual-program is not recognized; however it is recognized when I do
C-h v. I don't understand this.

PLEASE RECALL the domain is missing from the FROM in my mail header,
so please use the address below. Thanks


Mark J. Bennett
Center for Microgravity and Materials Research
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, AL 35899
(205)895-6889
bennett@uahtitan.uah.edu   (129.66.23.6)