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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040805134603.033540d8@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 13:48:07 -0400 To: cherborth AT qnx DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions? In-Reply-To: References: <000601c47959$a89a9610$0100a8c0 AT asswipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:27 PM 8/5/2004, you wrote: >Fish wrote: > >>Is anyone else HAVING, or HAS anyone else HAD, the same/similar >>problem with 'man' recently or at some time in the past? > >I haven't seen that, but when I try to use 'man', I get this error: > >troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P-c -mandoc': No such file or directory > >I've tried tracking down this problem, presumably in one of the shell scripts (such as /usr/bin/nroff), without luck. Just a WAG but I'd suggest checking you '/usr/sharemisc/man.conf' file for it's NROFF settings. Looks like yours is adding a '-P' option without proper spacing. -- 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/