From: Cjfogg AT aol DOT com Subject: Re: Installation problems 27 Dec 1998 08:26:53 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In a message dated 27/12/98 04:03:08 GMT, you write: << 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". I downloaded it with aol and haven't had a lot of luck with using ftp. I am refused a connection, and still can't manage to unpack user-man_tar.bz2. Whatever I do, it is always stored in Wordpad. >> >>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_Micha el/>B20 Argh! More to download? Sorry to sound ignorant (again) but what does groff, ncurses, less and man do? >> >>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. -- - 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".