From: chrismac AT xtra DOT co DOT nz (Chris McFarlane) Subject: Re: Installation problems 27 Dec 1998 22:56:35 -0800 Message-ID: <19981227231018.CEYI8684.mta2-rme.cygnus.gnu-win32@chrismac> References: Reply-To: chrismac AT xtra DOT co DOT nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Alternatively, and more straight forwards, see http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ for the windows help file versions. Chris On 27 Dec 98 at 10:03, Cjfogg AT aol DOT com wrote: > 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? - 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".