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Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:12:52 -0400
From:	Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
To:	mxgl AT usa DOT net
Cc:	Cygwin <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject:	Re: man page running again
Message-ID:	<20010712161252.E554@dothill.com>
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:42:10PM +0200, mxgl AT usa DOT net wrote:
> Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:07:12PM +0200, mxgl AT usa DOT net wrote:
> > > I just installed cygwin, and using man produced the following message:
> > > 
> > > Error executing formatting or display command.
> > > System command (cd /usr/man ; (echo -e ".pl 11i"; cat
> /usr/man/man1/grep.1) |
> > > /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | gzip >
> > > /usr/man/cat1/grep.1.gz) exited with status 32512.
> > > No manual entry for grep
> > 
> > The above is usually caused by not having /bin/sh (i.e., ash) installed.
> 
> Thank you, for your reply,
> 
> I downloaded the packages "by hand", and installed it locally, I did not
> download every package, and had never heard of "ash" before. The "How To" did
> not give any hint of interdependencies of the packages, so I made some
> "educated" guesses.
> 
> I installed ash, and Cygwin and man are running smoothly, now.

Please use Cygwin's setup.exe to install (all of) Cygwin.  Otherwise,
it is inappropriate to ask for help on the mailing list.

Thanks,
Jason

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