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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:19:21 -0400
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: "Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR)" <Duane DOT Kaufman AT med DOT ge DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with man
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Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR) wrote:

> Hi 
> 
> I recently installed Cygwin on my desktop machine (Win2k 5.00.2195
> Service Pack 2), and I am having trouble with getting man pages. Here is
> some output:
> 
> duane AT USD22C821 ~
> $ man man
> /usr/bin/tbl: not found
> /bin/cat: not found
> /usr/bin/nroff: not found
> /usr/bin/less: not found
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> System command (cd /usr/man && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/cat
> '/usr/man/man1/man.1'
> ; echo; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc
> | /usr/
> bin/less -isrR) exited with status 32512.
> No manual entry for man
> 
> I have read the FAQ, and yes, I have ash installed. Trying the same from
> a sh:
> 
> duane AT USD22C821 ~
> $ sh
> \[\033]0;\w\007
> \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> $ man man
> /usr/bin/tbl: not found
> /usr/bin/nroff: not found
> /usr/bin/less: not found
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> System command (cd /usr/man && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/cat
> '/usr/man/man1/man.1'
> ; echo; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc
> | /usr/
> bin/less -isrR) exited with status 32512.
> No manual entry for man
> \[\033]0;\w\007
> \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> 
> What do I have configured wrong?

This looks like a permission problem but there's nothing obviously wrong
from your setup log or cygwcheck output.  Can you invoke any of these
directly from bash without problems?  What do the ownerships look like
on these files?  What does 'getfacl' say for these files?

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