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Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:34:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:	S Taylor <dountootherstoo AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: man "h" command triggers error while viewing man page
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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 --- Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:

> S Taylor wrote:
> 
> > Where else are the while-viewing-manpage shortcuts
> > explained?
> > 
> > Getting help, "h" while viewing man page (e.g. man
> > man) triggers errors and blank less output
> > 
> > - win98se, cygwin-1.3.22-1, bash 2.05b.09, man
> 1.5j,
> > less 378, $PAGER=less
> > The error dialog box says "character / not allowed
> > in @/LESS/HELP/FILE/@" , plus these details
> > 
> > SH caused an invalid page fault in
> > module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff7d762.
> > Registers:
> > EAX=dbbed340 CS=0167 EIP=bff7d762 EFLGS=00010202
> > EBX=844a8db0 SS=016f ESP=0074e3c0 EBP=0074e408
> > ECX=bff7d75b DS=016f ESI=00000001 FS=45c7
> > EDX=bffc9490 ES=016f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
> > Bytes at CS:EIP:
> > 8b 0f 3b ce 76 10 8d 47 10 83 38 00 74 28 83 c0 
> > Stack dump:
> > 0074e408 844945b0 00000001 00000000 bff8dd46
> > 844a8db0
> > 00000000 0074f0e0 00000000 dba66ce0 844945f0
> > bff7ffff
> > bff7dcc4 00000000 000001a4 00000000 
> > 
> > After closing dialog box, shows less output as 
> > 
> > ^G
> > Signal 127
> > ~ (repeat to bottom)
> > @/\less/\help/\file/\@ (file 2 of 2) (END)
> > 
> > If previous threads/other documentation contain
> > the answer, please advise. 
> 

> Must be a 9x thing.  Works fine here on W2K.  Maybe
> this is some kind of terminal problem?  What are you
> using as your terminal, command.com or rxvt?

I tried it in both with the same result. 
I believe $TERM is set to cygwin for command.com, 
may be rxvt or linux for rxvt.


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