Hi, > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > > Of Larry Hall > > > Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR) wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I recently installed Cygwin on my desktop machine (Win2k 5.00.2195 > > > Service Pack 2), and I am having trouble with getting man > pages. Here is > > > some output: > > > > > Is it bash you're running below here? > Yep, and the errors occur down in the innards of the 'man' command. I (perhaps naively) assumed 'man' was using sh for its internal affairs, because running those same commands in bash, work. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > > > $ man man > > > /usr/bin/tbl: not found > > > /bin/cat: not found > > > /usr/bin/nroff: not found > > > /usr/bin/less: not found > > > Error executing formatting or display command. > > > System command (cd /usr/man && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/cat > > > '/usr/man/man1/man.1' > > > ; echo; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl | > /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc > > > | /usr/ > > > bin/less -isrR) exited with status 32512. > > > No manual entry for man > > > > > > I have read the FAQ, and yes, I have ash installed. > Trying the same from > > > a sh: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > > > $ sh > > > \[\033]0;\w\007 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] > > IIRC the default "sh" is the same as "ash" which in turn is a very > _cutdown_ build. It is included just for "install script" stuff. > > Please, do correct me if I'm wrong! > > I'd reccommend using /bin/bash based on these facts. Unless > you plan to go > and recompile "sh" or "ash" yourself. > Even if I use bash for the 'man' command, 'man' seems to want to use sh, which isn't working correctly. > > > $ man man > > > /usr/bin/tbl: not found > > > /usr/bin/nroff: not found > > > /usr/bin/less: not found > > > Error executing formatting or display command. > > > System command (cd /usr/man && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/cat > > > '/usr/man/man1/man.1' > > > ; echo; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl | > /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc > > > | /usr/ > > > bin/less -isrR) exited with status 32512. > > > No manual entry for man > > > \[\033]0;\w\007 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] > > > > > > What do I have configured wrong? > > > > This looks like a permission problem but there's nothing > obviously wrong > > from your setup log or cygwcheck output. Can you invoke > any of these > > directly from bash without problems? What do the > ownerships look like > > on these files? What does 'getfacl' say for these files? > > Might this be about not running bash, but something else? > Sorry, I don't quite understand this bit.
Thanks, Duane > /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems - > 59?14'N, 17?12'E > --END OF MESSAGE-- > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
