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RE: Newbie questions
- To: "' Clark Sims '" <clarksimsgnu@my-Deja.com>, "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: RE: Newbie questions
- From: John Wiersba <John.Wiersba@medstat.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:53:00 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clark Sims [mailto:clarksimsgnu@my-Deja.com]
<lots of SNIPs>
> How do I "see the bash man page"?
See below
> echo $PATH produces:
>
> /cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin:/cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin:d:
> /fsf/emacs-19.34/bin:d:/fsf/bin:/WINNT/system32:/WINNT:d:/CCLI
> B/libnt:d:/WATCOM/BINNT:d:/WATCOM/BINW:d:/util:.:d:/PROGRA~1/ULTRAEDT
>
> d:/fsf/emacs-19.34/bin contains emacs.exe
> but I can't run emacs unless I specify the full path
As another poster hinted, the colon is a path element separator, so
d:/anything won't work. Try
mount
mkdir /d
mount d: /d
and then put /d/anything in your path. There's more info about mount
scattered throughout the documentation/FAQ.
> d:/fsf/bin contains man.exe but I can't run man.
> Is the cygwin install supposed to contain man.exe?
I downloaded the man package from the franken ftp site, but if you already
have another man, then maybe that will work. I believe the man pages are
included in the install, but man.exe is not, for some reason.
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