From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT goodnet DOT com (Mikey) Subject: Re: Help w/ man please... 4 Dec 1998 01:49:15 -0800 Message-ID: <36670bd5.441527.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.goodnet.com> References: <19981203102035 DOT 5215 DOT qmail AT findmail DOT com> Reply-To: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT goodnet DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Kevin Ng" Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com at the bash prompt man -d "some sort man page" 2>&1|tee errors.txt to diagnose man problems it sounds like the path is not set correctly for subshells? On 3 Dec 1998 10:20:35 -0000, you wrote: >Hi, I have exactly the same problem on NT4, exit with status 32512... > >Could somebody help please......... > >Hi all, I have a 'man' problem that has me stumped. I have man, less, ncurses, and groff all installed (and working individually) but it wont work together. I do the following: >> >> 'man bash' >> >> and i get back this: >> Error executing formatting or display command. >> System command (cd /usr/local/man ; tbl /usr/local/man/man1/bash.1 | groff -Tascii -mandoc | less -is) exited with status 32512. >> >> >> Now the really weird thing is if i do those commands individually IT WORKS! I can cd into the directory and cat out bash.1 to groff and then to less, and it works fine. >> >> Any ideas?? >> >> >> TIA, >> Brian >> >> ps. As long as im posting, i signed up for this list, and set it to 'daily archive' but i never get any email from here, i can only check it from the web? Is something wrong there? >> - >> 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". >> >> > > > >----- >See the original message at http://www.egroups.com/list/gnu-win32/?start=9697 >- >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".