Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:44:16 -0400 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: man.config Message-ID: <20000606144416.A4835@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com References: <4 DOT 3 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20000606175600 DOT 00a832b0 AT 129 DOT 78 DOT 76 DOT 34> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000606175600.00a832b0@129.78.76.34>; from s.prescott@chem.usyd.edu.au on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 06:07:16PM +1000 On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 06:07:16PM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote: >I've just been playing with Cygwin, and I must say I absolutely love it.... > >the last time I looked at it was a beta a couple of years ago that was >quite accomplished and hanging my system. but now, you have produced a very >classy system for all of us who are trapped in windoze land. > >one thing I did find was that "man" does not work 'out-of-the-box'. I >grabbed an /etc/man.config from an linux system and edited it to reflect >the actual paths for the support executables and it seems work OK. (I'm not >a wiz on man.config, so I won't claim to have created a perfect one, just a >demonstration that it works in principle ;) > >hope this is a little bit of a help for you..... Is this with the Cygwin CD? There were reported problems with man.config there but they should be rectified in the net release. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com