Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:12:31 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems with man Message-ID: <20030731171231.GD6636@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:03:03PM -0500, Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR) wrote: >> > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com On Behalf Of Larry Hall >>>Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR) wrote: >>> >>>>I recently installed Cygwin on my desktop machine (Win2k 5.00.2195 >>>>Service Pack 2), and I am having trouble with getting man pages. Here >>>>is some output: >>>> >> >>Is it bash you're running below here? >> >Yep, and the errors occur down in the innards of the 'man' command. I >(perhaps naively) assumed 'man' was using sh for its internal affairs, >because running those same commands in bash, work. You weren't naive in assuming this. There are a lot of scripts out there which begin with /bin/sh. They are obviously supposed to work within the limits of bourne shell (v1?) syntax. ash hasn't been stripped down so much that it doesn't understand cygwin paths. -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam@sourceware.org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/