Problems with man

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:01:43PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 05:09:10PM -0500, Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR) wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:33:18PM -0500, Kaufman, Duane 
>>> (MED, LUNAR) wrote:
>>> >$ man man
>>> >/usr/bin/tbl: not found
>>> >/bin/cat: not found
>>> >/usr/bin/nroff: not found
>>> >/usr/bin/less: not found
>>> >Error executing formatting or display command.
>>> >System command (cd /usr/man && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/cat
>>> >'/usr/man/man1/man.1'
>>> >; echo; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl | 
>>> /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc
>>> >| /usr/
>>> >bin/less -isrR) exited with status 32512.
>>> >No manual entry for man
>>> 
>>> Ok, something else to try.  From sh, try:
>>> 
>>> $ d:/cygwin/bin/cat /etc/passwd
>>> $ /cygdrive/d/cygwin/bin/cat /etc/passwd
>>> 
>>> Does either command work?
>>>
>>Nope:
>>duane@USD22C821 ~
>>$ sh
>>\[\033]0;\w\007
>>\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
>>$ d:/cygwin/bin/cat /etc/passwd
>>d:/cygwin/bin/cat: not found
>>\[\033]0;\w\007
>>\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
>>$ /cygdrive/d/cygwin/bin/cat /etc/passwd
>>/cygdrive/d/cygwin/bin/cat: not found
>>\[\033]0;\w\007
>>\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
>>
>>But wait! When I try:
>>$ cat /etc/passwd
>>SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
>>Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>duane:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11054:10513:duane,U-LUNARCORP\duane,S-1-5-21-
>>25853599
>>-59532045-941767090-1054:/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/duane:/bin/bash
>>\[\033]0;\w\007
>>\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
>>$
>>
>>What is going on? It seems as if ash _doesn't_ like the _full_ path (or
>>one beginning with a /), but knows where to find cat and friends (ls,
>>pwd, ...)
>
>What does "which cat" say?

Given up?  I'm sort of interested in what is causing this problem.

cgf

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