Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 15:21:10 +0100 Message-ID: <9543-Sun08Jul2001152110+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: After Installation, Using Man produces Error In-Reply-To: <20010706200712.22331.qmail@nw178.netaddress.usa.net> References: <20010706200712.22331.qmail@nw178.netaddress.usa.net> On 6 Jul 01, mxgl@usa.net writes: > I just installed cygwin, and using man produced the following message: > > Error executing formatting or display command. > System command (cd /usr/man ; (echo -e ".pl 11i"; cat /usr/man/man1/grep.1) | > /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | gzip > > /usr/man/cat1/grep.1.gz) exited with status 32512. > No manual entry for grep > > I repeated the installation, no change! Everything else seems to run o.k. I > downloaded groff, man, gzip again, no change! This is in the FAQ: "Why doesn't man (or apropos) work?" If that FAQ entry does not answer your question, please let us know. David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/