Problem #1: ---------- After I loaded a few cygwin packages, I got this: $ man bash | wc man: can't execute col: No such file or directory
The "man" command works perfectly when the stdout is NOT redirected, but, when sent to a pipe or a file, the command "man" fails with the above message. Question #1: Shouldn't the 'man' function/package depend on the 'col' function/package? Problem #2 ---------- To solve my 'man' problem,I tried to find the 'col' command. I launched the standard interface (setup.exe) and entered 'col' in the 'Search' text field. It gave me a list of packages, mainly related to 'colamd', 'colorgc', 'protocol' stuff, 'colored' stuff, 'texlive-collection' stuff, 'colordiff'... but no clear link to the missing 'col.exe'. I tried to put 'col[^A-Za-z]' in the 'Search' text field but it gave nothing. Question #2: Shouldn't the 'col.exe' function/package be referenced in some (clear) package? Problem #3 ---------- I googled it and found: "Cannot locate col command in any current packages" at https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-04/msg00414.html whose answer was (in 2002): "Use this link to find out: http://www.cygwin.com/packages/"; So I went there, tried to search for 'col', found more than 1000 answers... useless... Then I searched for '[^A-Za-z]col[^A-Za-z]' and found 17 matches for [^A-Za-z0-9_]col[^A-Za-z0-9_], mainly emacs stuff, glpk stuff, singular-base stuff, texlive-collection stuff and... the winner is: 'util-linux-2.21-1 - Random collection of Linux utilities' which contains '/usr/bin/col.exe' among 178 lines. Question #3 To get a 'man' that works when piped, is there a better way than loading this "random" collection of utilities? Am I the only one to get that problem??? )jack( -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
