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From: William Scott <wgscott@chemistry.ucsc.edu>
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Subject: Re: installing zsh questions
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>
> 1. To make help files for run-help I used:
>
> % man -m /usr/local/man zshall | colcrt - | \
>  perl ~/sys/zsh/zsh-4.3.1/Util/helpfiles
>
> But this created files like:
>
> A
> On
> By

This happens to me too on OS X and ubuntu (debian), so I think it is 
platform-independent.  I too wouldn't mind getting rid of it, as 
occasionally you get a weird suprise.

>
> 2. There are executable scripts in Functions/Misc, however 'make
>   install' is installing them as non-executable files. I used:

Functions in general aren't executable shell scripts (although they often 
can be used as such).  Typically $fpath != $path.