From: Le S. <sne...@ll...> - 2004-07-08 16:03:20
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I also have cygwin installed [trying to figure out which is better for our future] and I was invoking cygwin's man. So I've got a mess of not quite inter-operating exe's. Thanks for the detail though. >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-msys >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > min...@li... > >You can reach the person managing the list at > min...@li... > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Mingw-msys digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: manpager (Keith MARSHALL) > >--__--__-- > >Message: 1 >To: min...@li... >Subject: Re: [Mingw-msys] manpager >From: Keith MARSHALL <kei...@to...> >Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:07:53 +0100 >Reply-To: min...@li... > >> I've just freshly installed Msys on a Windows 2000 system. >> Man does not seem to use /bin/less properly even though >> "ls /usr/bin" seems to indicate that /usr/bin is logically >> pointed at /bin. > >Where have you got man from? I am working on an MSYS port, >which is more or less working, but it isn't yet ready for >general release. AFAIK, there isn't any officially supported >implementation for MSYS. > >You probably need to specify paths, in man.conf, using the >Win32 native path format, i.e. for an MSYS installation in >D:\MSYS\1.0, /usr/bin/less becomes D:/MSYS/1.0/bin/less >(DO use / rather than \ here -- Win32 is quite happy with > either, but \ can often be problematic). > >BTW, what formatter are you using? Formatting of man pages >needs a working troff implementation; I am successfully using >GNU Troff (groff) v1.19.1, again with the appropriate paths, >set in man.conf, in Win32 native format. > >HTH, >Keith. > > > >--__--__-- > >_______________________________________________ >Mingw-msys mailing list >Min...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-msys > > >End of Mingw-msys Digest Le Snelson L-191 (925) 423-3427 Lawrence Livermore National Lab. sne...@ll... 7000 East Ave Livermore, CA 94550-9234 |