From: vrice AT solidrocksystems DOT com (Vince Rice) Subject: Re: Info and man/groff questions 18 Nov 1998 03:33:04 -0800 Message-ID: <3651BEC9.F1D6B3EC.cygnus.gnu-win32@solidrocksystems.com> References: <74zmmZ74pfB AT mike DOT franken DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Hirmke Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Michael, I played around with several options this morning, and the easiest one I found that worked was to change the NROFF line in man.config line to read NROFF /usr/local/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc from NROFF /usr/local/bin/groff -Tlatin1 -mandoc Of course, I'm on an English machine, so YMMV (and in fact probably will ). Vince Michael Hirmke wrote: > Hi Vince, > > [...] > >2. I also found binaries for man on Michael Hirmke's (I didn't go look that > >up, so I probably just butchered his name; sorry Michael) ftp site. It also > > You spelled it perfectly correct :) > > >works great, except where there are supposed to be end-of-line dashes I'm > >getting . For example, I get the following lines from less' man page: > > Jepp, same here - I got several hints on how to overcome this problem, > but none of them helped. > > [...] > > > >3. Doesn't bash read .bashrc on startup? I'm changing to my home directory > >before invoking bash, but it's still not running it when it starts. > > Set HOME= before starting bash. > > > > >Thanks! > > > >Vince > > Bye. > Michael. > -- > Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 > Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 > 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de > | WWW http://aquarius.franken.de/ > - > 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".