From: _kunglao AT prairienet DOT org (Gilligan) Subject: Re: 'less' problem 15 Jul 1997 08:24:37 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33CB5995.BB63AB77.cygnus.gnu-win32@prairienet.org> References: <9707141501 DOT AA41395 AT hagar DOT aspentec DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) Original-To: Jerome Gay Original-CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com 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 It sounds as though your less is not compiled for cygwin32. Get the sources from prep.ai.mit.edu /pub/gnu, and it should compile rather easily. The configure script doesn't add the regex support automatically, so if you want to do searching within less, you'll have to add the object file rx.o (or was it regex.o?) to the Makefile afterwards. -- Due to the abundance of spamming, action has been taken. Please remove the underscore (_) from my address when replying to me. Spammers, please leave the underscore in. - 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".