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 Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:06:32 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: "Anthony W. (Tony) Parran" cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: FW: whois and man packages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Anthony W. (Tony) Parran wrote: > Hi: > > I am new to CYGWIN. I am an experienced UNIX and WINDOWS user. > > I joined this community at the request of a fellow employee since I am > designing my own aircraft but ran into a problem using AutoCAD 3D. He > suggested I use some of the free source code available on the Internet for > my 3D modeling. > > I am running Windows 2000 Professional Welcome to Cygwin. Hope you like it. > Thus far I like the feel of CYGWIN, but I have a question. > > I must not have downloaded the packages, WHOIS, or MAN. When I go to the > PACKAGE site all I get are listing and not the source codes, etc. > > What am I doing wrong? > Thanks for your time. > Tony Well, if by "the package site" you mean , it's only there to give you a listing of the available packages and their contents. If you need to install any of those packages, you should use the setup.exe tool that you used to install Cygwin originally (you can always get the current copy off ) and select any of the current mirrors. If you simply wish to run the application, you only need the binary package (the one selected by default), but you can also get the source packages (by checking the "Src" checkbox for the package). Now for your particular problem... The "man" package is in the "Base" category, and thus should have been installed by default. If you had problems with your installation, please review the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at and post the relevant details as described there. I would, however, first try to run "/bin/man man" from a Cygwin bash shell. As for "whois", use the setup.exe tool to install the "whois" package (though if it's a typo and you meant to say "whatis", that's probably the same problem as "man", since they're both in the same package). HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/