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RE: bug, man, 1.5f, MANPATH with blanks
- To: "'meier at ieh dot etec dot uni-karlsruhe dot de'" <meier at ieh dot etec dot uni-karlsruhe dot de>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: RE: bug, man, 1.5f, MANPATH with blanks
- From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:19:16 -0400
Seems that cygwin is bug-compatible with every other version of 'man' I can
find.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Meier [mailto:fmeier@ifh.ee.ethz.ch]
> Subject: bug, man, 1.5f, MANPATH with blanks
> with cygwin, I am using man, version 1.5f, man-page from 1995-09-02.
>
> If the man path includes a directory with a blank, i. e.
> '/tmp/a b/man'
> then the message
>
> fmeier@LAETOP /d/Projects/PR970217 Larix
> $ man -M '/tmp/a b/man' mmp_m3d
> cd: can't cd to /tmp/a
> cat: /tmp/a: No such file or directory
> cat: /tmp/a: No such file or directory
>
> appears. Although it is a bad idea to include a blank in the name of
> a file or directory, this behaviour supprises me and I consider it a
> fault.
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