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Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 17:56:42 -0400
To: Trevor Osatchuk <fybar27 AT gmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Help with error in vi and man
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At 12:59 AM 5/7/2005, you 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?


Yes.  Please start here:

<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>

Sounds to me like your installation is incomplete/improper.


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