At Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 12:15:22 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 08/07/2014 17:47, Jack Duthen wrote: >> Problem #1: >> ---------- >> After I loaded a few cygwin packages, I got this: >> >> $ man bash | wc >> man: can't execute col: No such file or directory >> >> The "man" command works perfectly when the stdout is NOT redirected, >> but, when sent to a pipe or a file, the command "man" fails with the >> above message. >> >> Question #1: >> Shouldn't the 'man' function/package depend on the 'col' function/package? >> >> Problem #2 >> ---------- >> To solve my 'man' problem,I tried to find the 'col' command. >> >> I launched the standard interface (setup.exe) and entered 'col' in the >> 'Search' text field. >> >> It gave me a list of packages, mainly related to 'colamd', 'colorgc', >> 'protocol' stuff, 'colored' stuff, 'texlive-collection' stuff, >> 'colordiff'... >> >> but no clear link to the missing 'col.exe'. > wrong way. Setup search only package names, not their content > Best with > https://cygwin.com/packages/ > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=col.exe&arch=x86 > also with > $ cygcheck -p col.exe > Found 4 matches for col.exe > netpbm-10.61.02-1 - Toolkit for manipulation of graphic images > netpbm-debuginfo-10.61.02-1 - Debug information for Toolkit for > manipulation of graphic images > util-linux-2.21.2-1 - Random collection of Linux utilities > util-linux-debuginfo-2.21.2-1 - Debug information for Random collection > of Linux utilities > of course "col" is too short to be meaningful, "col.exe" > is a better catch. >> Question #3 >> To get a 'man' that works when piped, is there a better way than >> loading this "random" collection of utilities? >> >> Am I the only one to get that problem??? > util-linux is a popular package, so the issue was not yet noticed. > man was recently changed, so this dependency was likely missed, > specially as it seems hidden inside the man binary. Yes, this is true. I'll add it. I'm collecting a few things together, and trying to get the DB creation to work a little faster as well. -- Chris J. Breisch -- 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
