Re: man pages

[Stefan Lindqvist <Stefan dot Lindqvist at cygnion dot com>]

Unfortunately that didn't solve it either... As you can see on the command line,
it is actually doing a "cat /usr/local/man/man1/man.1". Hence, man finds the
correct file, but then the actual processing of the file fails for some
reason...

Tim Prince wrote:

> This makes it appear that /usr/local/man is not include in the search for
> man pages.  Try setting the -M option or MANPATH environment in accordance
> with 'man man.'  I am using the cwilson utilities version and it required no
> special attention.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stefan Lindqvist" <Stefan.Lindqvist@cygnion.com>
> To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 12:16 PM
> Subject: man pages
>
> > I'm trying to get the man pages working under bash on NT 4 SP6. I
> > downloaded the binaries for man and groff and I believe I managed to get
> > the files into the correct directories. The problem is, when running the
> > man command, I receive the following:
> >
> > $ man man
> > Error executing formatting or display command.
> > System command (cd /usr/local/man ; (echo -e ".pl 1100i"; cat
> > /usr/local/man/man
> > 1/man.1; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | c:/usr/local/bin/tbl |
> > c:/usr/local/bin/groff -
> > Tlatin1 -mandoc | c:/cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin/less -is)
> > exited with
> >  status 32512.
> > No manual entry for man
> >
> > However, if I "manually" run the above command "(cd /usr/local/man ;
> > (echo -e "..."  ...,etc the man page is printed out just fine. So, why
> > doesn't it work from the man command?
> >
> > Any hints highly appreciated. Thanks,
> >
> > Stefan L
> >
> >
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