From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke) Subject: Re: Installation problems 26 Dec 1998 17:31:03 -0800 Message-ID: <77g8PE24pfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de> References: <8256f9cf DOT 36813b20 AT aol DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi Cjfogg, >Hi, > >I am very new to programming and have gotten a little confused with Cygwin- >b20. I hate to ask a simple question, but I have downloaded >user-man.tar.bz2, stored it in Wordpad, and haven't the first clue how to >read it. I have tried to 'cd' to it but keep getting the reply; Did you download it with Netscape or MSIE ? I suppose, these get confused by the .bz2 ending of the file and try to store it as text file. Try to get it with some real ftp client or right click on wherever you saw the link and chose "download". > >user-man.tar.bz2: Is a directory. Uhm, after having downloaded this file, copy it to for example /temp and unpack it with "bzip2 -d user-man.tar.bz2". You get a tar archive after having done this. Untar it with "tar -xvf user-man.tar". You then have a directory with all the man page files. So far for the easy part - now you need to download and install groff, ncurses, less and man ! You can get them from ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/porters/Hirmke_Michael/B20 > >What am I doing wrong? If I can't read the manual I don't have very high >hopes for my programming career! Don't give up - there is always a starting point and no one can know everything when starting with something new. >Thanks, >Catherine Good luck ! 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".