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From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:40:32 +0200
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Subject: help2man doesn't work for me
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Hi, 

I loaded down help2man 1.24 from gnu and it is a perl script,
so it should work on cygwin with perl installed, but it doesn't.

$ ./help2man --output=multunil.1 ./multunil
help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./multunil

$ help2man --version
GNU help2man 1.24

Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is 
NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
PURPOSE.

Written by Brendan O'Dea <bod AT compusol DOT com DOT au>


I use the perl which comes with cygwin here AND
got the same problem at home where i use bleadperl.

Any hints (please CC to my Reply-To Adress),

gph



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Gerrit P. Haase

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