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On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 06:19:32PM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote:
>FYI:
>
>I'm making my work on this subject available to any one who want to 
>download my work.  At
>         http://pmcferrin.homedns.org/lman2.cpio.gz
>is a copy of the Linux/BSD manual pages of Section 2 of the man 
>directory.  If these man pages symbols are NOT in cygwin1.dll file, the 
>files has been moved to a .deleted directory.
>
>Please be advised that this TOTALLY UNOFFICIAL.  They have NOT been 
>reviewed for correctness with Cygwin.  They are however a valuable 
>resource.   Enjoy.  I would advised putting these pages into a local man 
>directory, separate from system installation.  They were downloaded from:
>     http://www.bigbiz.com/cgi-bin/listman?2
>which were <PRE> pre-formatted .html files converted back to man files; 
>including <B> & <I> processing for dumb rxvt windows.

Indiscriminately using linux manpages on Cygwin is likely going to add
to confusion.  Any man pages have to be tested for accuracy.

cgf

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