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Re: man pages


I seem to have missed the problem here. 

I built man as one of the first add-ons to both my B19 and B20 setups with 
little or no problems.

All it seemed to need was terminfo, ncurses and groff. Oh, and I think I had 
to gzip the man pages themselves.

Works just fine.

Thanks again for such a great toolkit.

Cheers,
Stephen.

"Sean Champ" <symmetry_web@email.msn.com>  wrote:
> if you're running b20:
> how did you even get the manpages to work?
> 
> I saw something about it, probably somewhere at cygnus, that suggested it wasn't possible to run manpages on b20
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stefan Lindqvist" <Stefan.Lindqvist@cygnion.com>
> To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 4:57 PM
> Subject: Re: man pages
> 
> 
> > Thanks Michael and others for the help. I was actually able to locate the
> > problem myself: After copying sh.exe to the /bin directory, man works fine
> > (just as the cygwin installation instructions say... - sorry about that).
> > 
> > /Stefan L
> > 
> > Michael Hirmke wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Stefan,
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > >$ man man
> > > >Error executing formatting or display command.
> > > [...]
> > > >No manual entry for man
> > > >
> > > >However, if I "manually" run the above command "(cd /usr/local/man ;
> > > >(echo -e "..."  ...,etc the man page is printed out just fine. So, why
> > > >doesn't it work from the man command?
> > > >
> > > >Any hints highly appreciated. Thanks,
> > >
> > > Probably either your man pages or your man config file is in DOS, not
> > > Unix format and/or your partitions are not mounted in binary mode.
> > >
> > > >
> > > >Stefan L
> > >
> > > Bye.
> > > Michael.
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