man problems - how to get a pre 1.5g-2 binary?

[Elfyn McBratney]

> Since January I have the following problems with man:
>
> If I use 1.5g-2, it finds all pages in the manpath, but renders the troff
> with lots of ugly Esc[^...
>
> If I use 1.5j-1, the pages it finds are rendered nicely, but it doesn't
find
> the pages in the directories I added myself to the manpath.
>
> Anybody knows the solution to this?
>
> Or (since it worked fine before Jan 2003) - how can I get an older binary
on
> http://www.cygwin.com - perhaps this will bring me back to the 2002 state
of
> "man" just working like I expect it to?
>
> Typically I use to first download to local drive and then install from
> there, but it appears that I didn't for this part...
>
> Many thanks for any hints in advance!


I don't think a version before 1.5g-2 will be hanging around as that package
was introduced sometime in 2000. What is the contents of your MANPATH
environment variable?


Regards,

Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
www.exposure.org.uk



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