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Re: After Installation, Using Man produces Error
- To: mxgl at usa dot net
- Subject: Re: After Installation, Using Man produces Error
- From: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 22:59:56 -0400
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:07:12PM +0200, mxgl@usa.net wrote:
> I just installed cygwin, and using man produced the following message:
>
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> System command (cd /usr/man ; (echo -e ".pl 11i"; cat /usr/man/man1/grep.1) |
> /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | gzip >
> /usr/man/cat1/grep.1.gz) exited with status 32512.
> No manual entry for grep
The above is usually caused by not having /bin/sh (i.e., ash) installed.
> I repeated the installation, no change! Everything else seems to run o.k. I
> downloaded groff, man, gzip again, no change!
You are sure? My WAG is that ash was installed when you repeated the
installation.
Jason
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