On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:03:03PM -0500, Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR) wrote: >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Hall >>>Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR) wrote: >>> >>>>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.
You weren't naive in assuming this. There are a lot of scripts out there which begin with /bin/sh. They are obviously supposed to work within the limits of bourne shell (v1?) syntax. ash hasn't been stripped down so much that it doesn't understand cygwin paths. -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- 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/
