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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVaRbG9fJoRVzviRL2jH3/w+a2kmTQQQt97b3WXaXkVupdHLxXHt17p+ Message-ID: <3F31198B.1010808@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 11:06:51 -0400 From: Larry Hall Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: S Taylor CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: man "h" command triggers error while viewing man page References: <20030806145833 DOT 93187 DOT qmail AT web41206 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20030806145833.93187.qmail@web41206.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit S Taylor wrote: > Where else are the while-viewing-manpage shortcuts > explained? > > Getting help, "h" while viewing man page (e.g. man > man) triggers errors and blank less output > > - win98se, cygwin-1.3.22-1, bash 2.05b.09, man 1.5j, > less 378, $PAGER=less > The error dialog box says "character / not allowed > in @/LESS/HELP/FILE/@" , plus these details > > SH caused an invalid page fault in > module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff7d762. > Registers: > EAX=dbbed340 CS=0167 EIP=bff7d762 EFLGS=00010202 > EBX=844a8db0 SS=016f ESP=0074e3c0 EBP=0074e408 > ECX=bff7d75b DS=016f ESI=00000001 FS=45c7 > EDX=bffc9490 ES=016f EDI=00000000 GS=0000 > Bytes at CS:EIP: > 8b 0f 3b ce 76 10 8d 47 10 83 38 00 74 28 83 c0 > Stack dump: > 0074e408 844945b0 00000001 00000000 bff8dd46 > 844a8db0 > 00000000 0074f0e0 00000000 dba66ce0 844945f0 > bff7ffff > bff7dcc4 00000000 000001a4 00000000 > > After closing dialog box, shows less output as > > ^G > Signal 127 > ~ (repeat to bottom) > @/\less/\help/\file/\@ (file 2 of 2) (END) > > If previous threads/other documentation contain the > answer, please advise. Must be a 9x thing. Works fine here on W2K. Maybe this is some kind of terminal problem? What are you using as your terminal, command.com or rxvt? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/