man.config

[Stuart Prescott]

Hi!

I've just been playing with Cygwin, and I must say I absolutely love it....

the last time I looked at it was a beta a couple of years ago that was 
quite accomplished and hanging my system. but now, you have produced a very 
classy system for all of us who are trapped in windoze land.

one thing I did find was that "man" does not work 'out-of-the-box'. I 
grabbed an /etc/man.config from an linux system and edited it to reflect 
the actual paths for the support executables and it seems work OK. (I'm not 
a wiz on man.config, so I won't claim to have created a perfect one, just a 
demonstration that it works in principle ;)

hope this is a little bit of a help for you.....

l8r
STu
man.config

	"What boots up must come down."

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Stuart Prescott

CSIRO Molecular Science                  Key Centre for Polymer Colloids
Bayview Avenue                           School of Chemistry (F11)
Clayton  VIC  3168                       University of Sydney  NSW  2006
Australia                                Australia

ph  +61 3 9545 2425                      ph  +61 2 9351 4237
fax +61 3 9545 2415                      fax +61 2 9351 8651

http://www.molsci.csiro.au/              http://www.kcpc.usyd.edu.au/

  Supported by the Key Centre for Polymer Colloids at the University of
       Sydney, the CRC for Polymers and CSIRO Molecular Science
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#
# Generated automatically from man.config.in by the
# configure script.
#
# man.config
#
# This file is read by man to configure the default manpath (also used
# when MANPATH contains an empty substring), to find out where the cat
# pages corresponding to given man pages should be stored,
# and to map each PATH element to a manpath element.
# It may also record the pathname of the man binary. [This is unused.]
# The format is:
#
# MANBIN		pathname
# MANPATH		manpath_element	[corresponding_catdir]
# MANPATH_MAP		path_element	manpath_element
#
# If no catdir is given, it is assumed to be equal to the mandir
# (so that this dir has both man1 etc. and cat1 etc. subdirs).
# Certain versions of the FSSTND recommend putting formatted versions
# of /usr/foopath/man/manx/page.x into /var/catman/foopath/catx/page.x.
# The keyword FSSTND will enable this peculiar behaviour.
# Explicitly given catdirs override.
#
FSSTND
#
# This file is also read by man in order to find how to call nroff, less, etc.,
# and to determine the correspondence between extensions and decompressors.
#
# MANBIN		/usr/local/bin/man
#
# Every automatically generated MANPATH includes these fields
#
MANPATH	/usr/man
MANPATH	/usr/local/man
MANPATH	/usr/X11R6/man
MANPATH	/usr/lib/perl5/man
#
# Set up PATH to MANPATH mapping
#
# (these mappings are superfluous when the right hand side is
# in the mandatory manpath already, but will keep man from statting
# lots of other nearby files and directories)
#
MANPATH_MAP	/bin			/usr/man
MANPATH_MAP	/sbin			/usr/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/bin		/usr/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/local/bin		/usr/local/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/X11R6/bin		/usr/X11R6/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/bin/X11		/usr/X11R6/man
MANPATH_MAP	/usr/bin/mh		/usr/man
#
# Useful paths - note that COL should not be defined when
# NROFF is defined as "groff -Tascii" or "groff -Tlatin1";
# not only is it superfluous, but it actually damages the output.
#
TROFF		/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc
NROFF		/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc
EQN		/bin/eqn -Tps
NEQN		/bin/eqn -Tascii
TBL		/bin/tbl
# COL		/bin/col
REFER		/bin/refer
PIC		/bin/pic
VGRIND		
GRAP		
PAGER		/bin/less -is
CAT		/bin/cat
#
# The command "man -a xyzzy" will show all man pages for xyzzy.
# When CMP is defined man will try to avoid showing the same
# text twice.
#
CMP		/bin/cmp -s
#
# Compress cat pages
#
COMPRESS	/bin/gzip
COMPRESS_EXT	.gz
#
# Default manual sections (and order) to search if -S is not specified
# and the MANSECT environment variable is not set.
#
MANSECT		1:8:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:tcl:n:l:p:o
#
# Decompress with given decompressor when input file has given extension
# The command given must act as a filter.
#
.gz		/bin/gunzip -c
.z		/bin/gunzip -c
.Z		/bin/zcat
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