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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 21:08:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Abhijit Patait <abhijit_patait AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: /usr/man/man2 and /usr/man/man4 directories missing
To: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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The problem seems to be solved. I reinstalled the
newlib-man package and it installed the man pages that
wre missing.

-Abhijit


--- Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> wrote:
> Err...it's not just those directories that are
> missing.  Setup 
> automatically creates the appropriate directories --
> if there are files 
> that "want" to be put in them.  Conclusion: not one
> of the 40 or so 
> cygwin packages contains a single "foo.4" man page
> or "foo.2" man page.
> 
> e.g. We don't have documentation for "ANSI C
> functions such as fread, 
> fwrite, etc)".  If you can find a free (as in
> speech, as in beer) source 
> for them, please contribute.
> 
> --Chuck
> 
> Abhijit Patait wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I recently installed cygwin. However, I do not
> know
> > why the installation program did not install all
> the
> > 'man' pages. I checked in the /usr/man directory
> > (where 'man' looks for documentation by default
> when
> > MANPATH is empty - which is the case on my
> computer)
> > and found that the directories /usr/man/man2 and
> > /usr/man/man4 are missing (man1, man3, man4, man5,
> > man7, man8, man9 are there). The man pages that I
> was
> > looking for (those for ANSI C functions such as
> fread,
> > fwrite, etc) are probably supposed to be in those
> > directories and hence 'man' cannot find them.
> > 
> > Could someone tell me how I do I install the man
> pages
> > for everything?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > -Abhijit
> > 
> > 
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