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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:23:34 -0400
To: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?
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At 02:14 PM 8/5/2004, you wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Chris Herborth
>> Sent: 05 August 2004 19:01
>
>> adding spaces between -P and {-c,-h} gives this error:
>> 
>> troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P -c -mandoc': No such file 
>> or directory
>
>  Looking at the docs for the -P option, that would be bound to be wrong
>anyway.  "-c" isn't a seperate option, it's the argument to -P.


Yep, I didn't realize that was a 'groff' option.  Without the space is the
right thing.



>> Adding -x to #!/bin/sh in /usr/bin/nroff suggests that for 
>> "man foo" the 
>> "foo" doesn't make it into the call to groff at the end of the script 
>> and that the additional args are being passed as a single argument:
>
>> PATH=/usr/bin:/c/emacs-21.3/bin:/cygdrive/d/cherborth/bin:/usr
>> /local/bin:/usr/
>> bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/d/cherborth/bin:/usr/bin:/cy
>> gdrive/c/WINDOWS/s
>> ystem32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:
>> /cygdrive/c/Progra
>> m Files/ATI Technologies/ATI Control Panel:/cygdrive/c/Program 
>> Files/Common File
>> s/GTK/2.0/bin:.:/cygdrive/c/QNX6.3.0/host/win32/x86/usr/bin:/c
>> ygdrive/c/Program
>> Files/QNX Software Systems/bin groff -mtty-char -Tascii  -P-c -mandoc
>> troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P-c -mandoc': No such file 
>> or directory
>
>
>  Your $PATH is a bit messy.  What's in that emacs bin directory?  What
>about the QNX bin dir?  
>
>  I'm wondering if there's various versions of the gnu tools on your system
>and they're clashing.  What happens when you try 'which troff groff man'?


That's a good question.  Clearly this is a local environment issue.  
Perhaps it's time to fallback to the old reliable:


>Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html


:-)



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