Re: thanks, makewhatis works, still have man problems

Please keep email on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. It gets to me just as fast, and someone else might answer quicker. Geoff Begley wrote: > Thanks again... I appended the requested output. > Which gave me the idea to try > chmod 744 /usr/man/man1/* Why did you just make your man pages executable?

Re: thanks, makewhatis works, still have man problems

Geoff Begley wrote: > Let my preface by saying thank you to Max Bowsher for his help! No problem. > I reinstalled cygwin, and no longer get have the problems accessing > programs from scripts. Good. > I ran >man bash, and received > no manual entry for bash (same for sh, grep, or anything else)

thanks, makewhatis works, still have man problems

Let my preface by saying thank you to Max Bowsher for his help! I reinstalled cygwin, and no longer get have the problems accessing programs from scripts. I was able to execute makewhatis successfully, and whatis yields an entry for from the database, however I haven't yet been able to access any