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: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:12:52 -0400 From: Jason Tishler To: mxgl@usa.net Cc: Cygwin Subject: Re: man page running again Message-ID: <20010712161252.E554@dothill.com> Mail-Followup-To: mxgl@usa.net, Cygwin Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010711194210.17943.qmail@nwcst292.netaddress.usa.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp. On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:42:10PM +0200, mxgl@usa.net wrote: > Jason Tishler wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:07:12PM +0200, mxgl@usa.net wrote: > > > 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 > > > > The above is usually caused by not having /bin/sh (i.e., ash) installed. > > Thank you, for your reply, > > I downloaded the packages "by hand", and installed it locally, I did not > download every package, and had never heard of "ash" before. The "How To" did > not give any hint of interdependencies of the packages, so I made some > "educated" guesses. > > I installed ash, and Cygwin and man are running smoothly, now. Please use Cygwin's setup.exe to install (all of) Cygwin. Otherwise, it is inappropriate to ask for help on the mailing list. Thanks, Jason -- Jason Tishler Director, Software Engineering Phone: 732.264.8770 x235 Dot Hill Systems Corp. Fax: 732.264.8798 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: Jason.Tishler@dothill.com Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com -- 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/