From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: man-1.4j MANPATH semi-functional [UPD: GNUWin32 package report] 30 Apr 1998 17:35:24 -0700 Message-ID: <19980430115644.12473.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1c.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Bjoern DOT Kulms AT rz DOT tu-ilmenau DOT de Cc: gw32 Hi Björn, The way you have your mounted directories structured can sometimes confuse cygwin. To workaround this problem I suggest: umount /usr/share (The one you have on E:\) cd /usr ln -s //e share This may or may not work for you, but it's at least worth a try. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- ---Björn Kulms wrote: > > Michael Hirmke wrote: > > > GNUWin32 package report > > - man-1.4j > > This man-1.4j is not fully functional. > > Set in man.config > MANPATH . > MANPATH //E/man > MANPATH //C/local/man > MANPATH /usr/share/man > MANPATH /usr/local/man > > Man Pages in //E/man are found > only when you are physically on > drive E: (or in /usr/share) > C:\ is mounted to /usr > E:\ is mounted to /usr/share > Man pages in /usr/local (i.e. on //C) > are found even if you are physically > on E:) > > Workaround: cd to the drive first > where you know the man page physically to reside > then call man. > A mechanism like that could be included into the man > code, even if this seems to be a more general problem, > as `find' does not work, too. > > -- > BGKS Bjoern Kulms Tel. +49(3677)670014 Tel. > +49(5363)71468 > TU Ilmenau Max-Planck-Ring 8c/L62 Kronekenberg 1 > Elektronische Medientechnik D 98693 Ilmenau D 38446 Wolfsburg > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".