From: flodi AT glamm DOT com (Fabrizio Lodi) Subject: Re: Poor man's manpage reader for cygwin/ming 23 Feb 1998 05:48:09 -0800 Message-ID: <34F1329D.4EB346F6.cygnus.gnu-win32@glamm.com> References: <199802201650 DOT QAA76876 AT out1 DOT ibm DOT net> Reply-To: fab AT computer DOT org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: vischne AT ibm DOT net Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com vischne AT ibm DOT net wrote: > > > Fabrizio Lodi (flodi AT glamm DOT com) > > Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:04:34 +0100 > >vischne AT ibm DOT net wrote: > >> > >> The following manpage reader script seems to work pretty well under > >> cygwin, and is made of handy parts that are easily available and > >> portable to cygwin. > >> > >> In this case, less-332 was compiled using mingwin32, since there was > >> alternate code in the less-332 source distribution that lets you take > >> advantage of mingwin's rtldll.dll library instead of the cygwin terminal. > >> Compiling less-332 using cygwin results in a version of less.exe that > >> issues diagnostic messages indicating _where_ the cygwin terminal is broken. > >> Also, zmore.exe seems to work well using `ln -s less.exe more.exe' as its > >> version of more.exe. > >> ======================================================================== > >> > >> #!/bin/sh > >> zmore $1 | nroff -man - | col | less > > > >To view man pages I've compiled without any problems thr groff package > >from GNU (configured, compiled and installed through the provided > >scripts and makefiles) and the standard distribution of man. > > > >As a pager I use less, that I've compiled whith any problem (of course, > >after the compilation and installation of ncurses). > > > >Sure, it took near a day of work to be sure that all is working, but it > >is worth the time spent. > >-- > Fabrizio, I've been on other conferences in which people deliberately set > out to lie about what is possible, and I think this is the case with you. > I've implemented ncurses on cygwin, and it just doesn't work because of > the cygwin terminal. The only package that begins to work is the slang > package with the Win32 extensions. And, using less with ncurses should > give you diagnostic messages about the cygwin terminal, and not the smooth, > professional operation that defining `WINC32' and using MINGW32 to compile > gives. As for groff, you are an outright liar. All the recent releases > of groff crash the tar program under cygwin. They cause `disk not ready' > messages on the drive that tar was run under cygwin. To get groff untarred, > you have to reboot to Linux and use the Linux tar program. And, groff uses > a whole host of functions not available under cygwin. > > So, I repeat, Fabrizio, you are a liar. Get off this conference. >  > - > 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". I can't wast a second to answer to this poor guy. I htink the sun is too hot where he lives. But I request officially to get him off that list, please. Or I want aq *public* message of excuses. -- ____________________________________________________________ Fabrizio Lodi | IEEE Computer Society | GLAMM Interactive |\ +39-335-6613385 | fab AT computer DOT org | flodi AT glamm DOT com |\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ - 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".