Can't run a man page.

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Feb 1 03:53:00 GMT 2007


Kataria, Sunil wrote:
> I found that less was not working...and got it fixed (copied "less" from
> old binaries)
> 
> However still not been able to see the man pages.
> 
> When I run the man page it shows some empty lines and that's it.
> 
> Does someone know about this issue and the fix?
> 
> Regards,
> Sunil
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kataria, Sunil
> Sent: Thursday, 1 February 2007 8:04 AM
> To: cygwin <at> cygwin <dot> com
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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> Subject: Can't run a man page.
> 
> Hi 
> 
> When I run a man page, it reported ....
> 
> Error executing formatting or display command.
> System command (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".ll 15.1i"; echo ".nr LL
> 15.1i"; echo ".pl 1100i"; /usr/bin/gunzip -c
> '/usr/share/man/man1/cat.1.gz'; echo ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") |
> /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/less
> -isrR) exited with status 13568.
> No manual entry for cat 
> 
> Could someone please help?

WAG:
<http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-07/msg00399.html>?

There are some other hits the in the archives that would constitute other
WAGs.

Don't want a WAG?  Then let's start with:
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>?



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