On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 06:19:32PM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote: >FYI: > >I'm making my work on this subject available to any one who want to >download my work. At > http://pmcferrin.homedns.org/lman2.cpio.gz >is a copy of the Linux/BSD manual pages of Section 2 of the man >directory. If these man pages symbols are NOT in cygwin1.dll file, the >files has been moved to a .deleted directory. > >Please be advised that this TOTALLY UNOFFICIAL. They have NOT been >reviewed for correctness with Cygwin. They are however a valuable >resource. Enjoy. I would advised putting these pages into a local man >directory, separate from system installation. They were downloaded from: > http://www.bigbiz.com/cgi-bin/listman?2 >which were <PRE> pre-formatted .html files converted back to man files; >including <B> & <I> processing for dumb rxvt windows.
Indiscriminately using linux manpages on Cygwin is likely going to add to confusion. Any man pages have to be tested for accuracy. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
