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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:57:15 -0800
From: Stefan Lindqvist <Stefan DOT Lindqvist AT cygnion DOT com>
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Subject: Re: man pages
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Thanks Michael and others for the help. I was actually able to locate the
problem myself: After copying sh.exe to the /bin directory, man works fine
(just as the cygwin installation instructions say... - sorry about that).

/Stefan L

Michael Hirmke wrote:

> Hi Stefan,
>
> [...]
> >$ man man
> >Error executing formatting or display command.
> [...]
> >No manual entry for man
> >
> >However, if I "manually" run the above command "(cd /usr/local/man ;
> >(echo -e "..."  ...,etc the man page is printed out just fine. So, why
> >doesn't it work from the man command?
> >
> >Any hints highly appreciated. Thanks,
>
> Probably either your man pages or your man config file is in DOS, not
> Unix format and/or your partitions are not mounted in binary mode.
>
> >
> >Stefan L
>
> Bye.
> Michael.
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