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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: findutils-4.3.0-1


On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Martin Slack wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Igor Peshansky" <part man at part hippo>

:-)  The question is: which part? :-)

> To: "The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List" Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: findutils-4.3.0-1
>
> > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Eric Blake wrote:
> >
> > > According to Igor Peshansky on 1/18/2006 8:19 AM:
> > > >
> > > > Umm, yeah.  Looks like either the manpage needs to be updated (or my
> > > > ingrained Unix reflex to go to the manpage instead of the info file is
> > > > badly out of date).  If only we had a better info reader...
> > >
> > > excerpts from 'man find' on 4.3.0-1
> >
> > $ man -W find | xargs cygcheck -f
> > findutils-4.2.25-2
> >
> > Ouch!
> >
> > > (ouch - how do you make man reformat a listing to 70 columns, so that I
> > > can then paste it into my email without ugly wrapping? I tried
> > > COLUMNS=70 man find, but to no avail):
>
> export MANWIDTH=70

D'oh!  That's it -- thanks!

Of course, it only really works for widths that are multiples of 20 (e.g.,
70 would be rounded up to 80, but 60 will work).
	Igor
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