Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:00:47 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Trouble with using man.exe
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On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Jeff Williams wrote:

> It's as if `man' is looking for `less' or for `groff' but doesn't
> find either one because it is looking for a .exe by the name of
> `less.exeorgroff'.

No, `man' looks for the programs with the correct name, it's just the
error message that is slightly garbled.  It should have said this:

 c:/djgpp/bin/less.exe or groff.exe -man Tascii: No such file or directory(ENOENT)

(The `or' part is because `man' runs a pipe, and when it fails, it
cannot know which part of the pipe triggered an error.)

I will fix the error message for the next release.  (I wish people would 
tell me about these problems when they see them, though.)