Manual entry for gzcat
 

I am using fedora 8, when i use man page it shows the entry for the normal commands like ls, cat etc..
Now i want to know the man page for other commands like gzcat etc and it does not show any manual entry. I know i have to install some packages. Can someone tell me which one. I can install through yum.

Thanks

There is no man page for gzcat. From man zcat:

Oh thanks brian, gzcat is a solaris command. I gets confused sometimes between the distributions :)

Additionally how can I install the manual entry for any other commands which are not preinstalled.

I don't know, I haven't used Fedora for ages.

8 is way out of date, they're up to 15 now.

You can use the online manuals http://linux.die.net/man/

man gunzip http://linux.die.net/man/1/gunzip

man zcat http://linux.die.net/man/1/zcat

There are no extra packages for Fedora, these are the general ones:
1) man 2) man-pages 3) man-pages-<your-language>, like man-pages-uk

But a lot of application, libraries will add their own man pages.

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If a pkg is installed, part of the installation includes the relevant man page.
for stuff you don't have installed, try http://linux.die.net/man/ as per post #6.
HOWEVER, note post #5, you can't get updates for a system that old; get an up to date one first.