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Subject:	popen: Permission denied - error opening man page
From:	Balaji Venkataraman <balaji DOT s DOT venkataraman AT gmail DOT com>
To:	Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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I completely wiped my Cygwin32 install and re-installed the bare
minimum set of packages. But I still can't get something as basic as
'man ls' to run from a non-admin mintty bash shell.

x86$ man ls
popen: Permission denied
Attempt [/usr/bin/gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz] to expand man
page failed
No manual entry for ls

I had the same symptom before I wiped my system. Things do work okay
with an Administrator shell. It also works fine in cygwin64 - both a
admin/non-admin shell.

I found this (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00165.html) old
thread but don't think the same fix applies. Appreciate any
feedback/help.

Thanks!

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