Robert Mark Bram wrote: > I downloaded pinfo recently because I have heard it is a better help > program than man. I ran the cygwin setup program, selected pinfo and > thought it ran through ok. However, when I type "pinfo", the command > is not known: > > $ pinfo > bash: pinfo: command not found
Run: $ ls -l /bin/pinfo $ cygcheck -c pinfo Post the output of those 2 commands here, and we'll try to help. > I went and had a look at the files inside the pinfo download: > pinfo-0.6.6p1-1.tar.bz2. I found a readme file with the following > information in it: > > To rebuild the package for cygwin: Rebuild = rebuild from source. You probably don't want to do that. > This is a bit confusing for me at the moment. I assumed: > pinfo-x.x.x-x-src = pinfo-0.6.6p1-1.tar.bz2 Not true. -src means the source package, not the binary package. > > copy sample pinforc to /usr/share/pinfo/pinforc > > copy CAPITALIZEDFILES to /usr/doc/pinfo-x.x.x-x/ Uhh... those are instructions for a human, not commands to be fed verbatim to a shell. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
