Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/12/04/01:49:15
at the bash prompt
man -d "some sort man page" 2>&1|tee errors.txt
to diagnose man problems it sounds like the path is not set correctly for subshells?
On 3 Dec 1998 10:20:35 -0000, you wrote:
>Hi, I have exactly the same problem on NT4, exit with status 32512...
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>Could somebody help please.........
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>Hi all, I have a 'man' problem that has me stumped. I have man, less, ncurses, and groff all installed (and working individually) but it wont work together. I do the following:
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>> 'man bash'
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>> and i get back this:
>> Error executing formatting or display command.
>> System command (cd /usr/local/man ; tbl /usr/local/man/man1/bash.1 | groff -Tascii -mandoc | less -is) exited with status 32512.
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>> Now the really weird thing is if i do those commands individually IT WORKS! I can cd into the directory and cat out bash.1 to groff and then to less, and it works fine.
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>> Any ideas??
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>> TIA,
>> Brian
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