There does seem to be an issue though:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/man/mingw
$ ls
basename.mingw  dirname.mingw

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/man/mingw
$ man mingw basename
No entry for basename in section mingw of the manual

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/man/mingw
$ man -v
man, version 1.6e

I found the problem.  man is expecting manmingw not mingw (for the
section), so what it's looking for is:

/usr/share/man/manmingw/basename.mingw
/usr/share/man/manmingw/dirname.mingw

not

/usr/share/man/mingw/basename.mingw
/usr/share/man/mingw/dirname.mingw

Which makes sense really, given how the existing sections work.
Should I make a new release to work in this fashion, or should man be
modified?

Chris

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