Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <20020220230629.42453.qmail@web9104.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:06:29 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Brett=20Porter?= Reply-To: brettporter AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: Getting all "man" pages? To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: <1014243720.32687.ezmlm@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Is there any reason this isn't part of the cygwin distro.? I would have thought they went along with libc, etc. I can think of a couple of reasons: size, extra maintenance time. Both fair enough. But I wonder if it isn't a hassle if it might be a good idea. I remember back to my DJGPP days where there was a source, binary and doco package - perhaps there is scope to do the same with Cygwin (so setup has a doco option as well as a source option). What are the thoughts on this? - Brett > At 02:33 PM 2/20/2002, Alan Huang wrote: > >Dear all, > > May I ask that how do I obtain most other > "man" pages that exist in > >Linux but not in Cygwin when you install Cygwin? > I'm especially looking for > >"man" documents for most C functions. eg. > gethostbyname() I'm sorry that I > >might be asking stupid, newbie questions, but I > really couldn't find the > >solution to it... > > > Pull them from your favorite GNU mirror and untar > them into a directory that > man looks at. http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - Vote for your nominees in our online Oscars pool. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/