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Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 11:35:50 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Help with error in vi and man
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On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:59:22PM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote:
>When starting up vi/vim I get the following error:
> 
>E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo
>'cygwin' not known. Available builtin terminals are:
>builtin_ansi
>builtin_xterm
>builtin_iris-ansi
>builtin_dumb
>defaulting to ansi
> 
>Help does not work for vim I get the error:
> 
>E433: No tags file
>E149: Sorry, no help for help.txt
> 
>Also when I type in the man command, man ls for example, all I get is
>(END) and no man page.  Like it paged to the end.  I don't currently
>have a pager environment variable.  My manpath is correct.
> 
>Any ideas?

Run the cygwin version of vim, i.e., /usr/bin/vim?  You're obviously
running some other version.  "which vim" would probably show which
version you're running.

cgf

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