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Subject:  Re: man command not working
Date:  Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:32:06 +0100
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* ashabrol (Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:34:27 -0800 (PST))
> Man command is not working on my cygwin. When I type simple man 
command
> without parmaters it prompts "What manual page do you want?". But when i
> give a parameter it says.
> 
> $ man ls
> sh: /usr/bin/tbl: No such file or directory
> sh: /usr/bin/less: No such file or directory
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> System command (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".ll 15.9i"; echo ".nr LL
> 15.9i"; echo ".pl 1100i"; /usr/bin/gunzip -c '/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz';
> echo ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu
> +10") | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/less
> -isrR) exited with status 32512.
> No manual entry for ls

First check if the files mentioned in the error message are there. You 
might have an incomplete installation.


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