From: weiku AT solid DOT ssd DOT ornl DOT gov (Ku Wei) Subject: Re: 'less' problem 14 Jul 1997 17:41:07 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: Jerome Gay Original-cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <9707141501.AA41395@hagar.aspentec.com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Make sure your less is compiled with gnuwin32 so that it can recognise the path name. I have no trouble using less in bash. Sincerely, Wei Ku *************************************** Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee 1408 Circle Drive Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200 weiku AT utkux DOT utcc DOT utk DOT edu --------------------------------------- Solid State Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory P.O.Box 2008 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6032 Phone: (423) 574-5795 Fax: (423) 574-4143 weiku AT solid DOT ssd DOT ornl DOT gov *************************************** On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Jerome Gay wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I'm a newbie to the gnu-win32 stuff. > I've gnu-win32 b18 installed, and I just installed the man-14h binaries > from David Coe as well as groff 1.10 and less 3.21 binaries (from Mark > Nudel) on my PC running Win95. > > But... if I run a simple 'man man', I got : > > Error executing formatting or display command. > System command (cd /usr/man ; /usr/bin/tbl /usr/man/man1/man.1 | > /usr/bin/troff -mandoc -Tascii | /usr/bin/grotty -B | /usr/local/bin/less > -isc) exited with status 32512. > No manual entry for man > > C:\gnuwin32\b18\H-i386-cygwin32 is mounted as /usr > > After a few tries, it appears that if I type 'cat /usr/man/man1/man.1' > from my home directory (/home) it works, and 'less /usr/man/man1/man.1' > gives 'No such file or directory' .... > Is it a known problem with 'less' ? > > Any ideas/help will be welcome ! Thanks > > Jerome > > "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you can accept from > other" J. Postel > > > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".