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Subject:    [Mingw-msys] Re: Mingw-msys digest, Vol 1 #598 - 1 msg
From:       Le Snelson <snelson1 () llnl ! gov>
Date:       2004-07-08 16:03:02
Message-ID: 5.0.0.25.2.20040708085925.0288aee0 () poptop ! llnl ! gov
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I also have cygwin installed [trying to figure out which is better for our future] and I was invoking cygwin's man. So I've got a mess of not quite inter-operating exe's.  Thanks for the detail though.


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>Subject: Re: [Mingw-msys] manpager
>From: Keith MARSHALL <keith.marshall@total.com>
>Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:07:53 +0100
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>> I've just freshly installed Msys on a Windows 2000 system.
>> Man does not seem to use /bin/less properly even though
>> "ls /usr/bin" seems to indicate that /usr/bin is logically
>> pointed at /bin.
>
>Where have you got man from?  I am working on an MSYS port,
>which is more or less working, but it isn't yet ready for
>general release. AFAIK, there isn't any officially supported
>implementation for MSYS.
>
>You probably need to specify paths, in man.conf, using the
>Win32 native path format, i.e. for an MSYS installation in
>D:\MSYS\1.0, /usr/bin/less becomes D:/MSYS/1.0/bin/less
>(DO use / rather than \ here -- Win32 is quite happy with
> either, but \ can often be problematic).
>
>BTW, what formatter are you using?  Formatting of man pages
>needs a working troff implementation; I am successfully using
>GNU Troff (groff) v1.19.1, again with the appropriate paths,
>set in man.conf, in Win32 native format.
>
>HTH,
>Keith.
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Le Snelson   L-191                           (925) 423-3427
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