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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:12:31 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with man
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:03:03PM -0500, Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR) wrote:
>> > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com  On Behalf Of Larry Hall
>>>Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR) wrote:
>>>
>>>>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:
>>>>
>>
>>Is it bash you're running below here?
>>
>Yep, and the errors occur down in the innards of the 'man' command.  I
>(perhaps naively) assumed 'man' was using sh for its internal affairs,
>because running those same commands in bash, work.

You weren't naive in assuming this.  There are a lot of scripts out
there which begin with /bin/sh.  They are obviously supposed to work
within the limits of bourne shell (v1?) syntax.  ash hasn't been
stripped down so much that it doesn't understand cygwin paths.
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