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[Fwd: Re: Poor man's manpage reader for cygwin/ming]
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- Subject: [Fwd: Re: Poor man's manpage reader for cygwin/ming]
- From: "Bartlee A. Anderson" <banders at ECD dot Rockwell dot COM>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 18:22:49 -0600
Per vischne's request I will not write him about this subject any more.
It is my guess by his refusal to answer a simple question about a post
that he made, is that he doesn't know how he compiled less, and can't
understand a simple request for information. But we have seen this sort
of thing before, haven't we.
However if anyone can tell me the steps to get less working with mingw32
I would be grateful. I'm afraid I don't understand what less doesn't
like about my termcap, or where I got it from. Do I need ncurses?
--
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- To: "Bartlee A. Anderson" <banders at ECD dot Rockwell dot COM>
- Subject: Re: Poor man's manpage reader for cygwin/ming
- From: vischne at ibm dot net
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:28:32 GMT
I'm not going to take responsibility for your inability to compile
less. Get on to the Dos prompt and type:
nroff -man <your file> | more
And, don't write to me any more.
At 11:43 AM 2/20/98 -0600, you wrote:
>bash$ less help.c
>WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
>"help.c" may be a binary file. See it anyway? bash$
>that's all she wrote folks.
>
>My point is that less is not working. I noticed another user point out
>that he had to get ncurses. Any comment on what your configuration
>from a term standpoint is? ncurses termlib termcap other?
>Can you reiterate the steps that you took in compiling less and
>explain your environment as it differs from any preconceived notion
>of a standard.
>Bart
>8< snip >8
>--
>Bartlee A. Anderson System Test (Interfaces-Tools-Automation-ISDN)
>Rockwell International Electronic Commerce Division
>300 Bauman Ct. banders@ecd.rockwell.com
>MS 933-605 Opinions my own, not Rockwell's VOICE (630) 227-8975
>Wood Dale, IL 60191 FAX (630) 227-9771
>
>