Re: Recent problem with man-db-update

2021-01-07 Thread ASSI
Paquet André Earl writes: > I have been a user of CYGWIN for many years. I have a full > (everything) installation (see article 2.12 of the FAQ). You shouldn't, Cygwin is long past the point where it was useful to install everything. In this particular case it makes the man-db index update manda

Re: Recent problem with man-db-update

2021-01-06 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 06.01.2021 23:23, Paquet André Earl wrote: Good afternoon, ManDB index update starting... ... ManDB index update complete. /etc/postinstall/zp_man-db-update-index.dash: 14: exec: 3: not found I suspect the row 14 exec 3&>- was supposed to be exec 3>&- to close the desc

Recent problem with man-db-update

2021-01-06 Thread Paquet André Earl
Good afternoon, I have been a user of CYGWIN for many years. I have a full (everything) installation (see article 2.12 of the FAQ). I update my installation every day (completely, see article 2.12), so this is the reason I k

Re: Problem with man and scrolling

2010-10-07 Thread Andy Koppe
On 6 October 2010 20:16, Richard Chapling wrote: >  I am using man in Terminator, and when I scroll using the scroll wheel, it > does nothing, whereas I want it to act as it would in Linux terminal > emulators like Konsole, i.e. to scroll through the man page. How can I > achieve this? Terminator

Re: Problem with man

2004-10-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with man. > > $ man ps > > Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) > JNROFF LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 /usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj > Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) > KNROFF /

Re: Problem with man

2004-10-05 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
>>>>> Alex Vinokur writes: > Hi, > I have a problem with man. > $ man ps > Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) > JNROFF LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 /usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj > Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) > KNR

Problem with man

2004-10-05 Thread Alex Vinokur
Hi, I have a problem with man. $ man ps Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) JNROFF LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 /usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) KNROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tkorean -mandoc Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) JNEQN /usr/bin

Re: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?

2004-08-06 Thread Chris Herborth
Larry Hall wrote: That's a good question. Clearly this is a local environment issue. Perhaps it's time to fallback to the old reliable: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html :-) See attached. ;-) The first one is the system with the QNX Momentics stuff installed, the second on

Re: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?

2004-08-06 Thread Chris Herborth
Dave Korn wrote: Your $PATH is a bit messy. What's in that emacs bin directory? What about the QNX bin dir? EMACS bin just has the stuff from the win32 port of EMACS; the QNX bin dir is a partial (and rather old, unfortunately) cygwin from our Momentics development tools suite. I have the sam

RE: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?

2004-08-05 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:14 PM 8/5/2004, you wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Chris Herborth >> Sent: 05 August 2004 19:01 > >> adding spaces between -P and {-c,-h} gives this error: >> >> troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P -c -mandoc': No such file >> or directory > > Looki

RE: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?

2004-08-05 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Chris Herborth > Sent: 05 August 2004 19:01 > adding spaces between -P and {-c,-h} gives this error: > > troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P -c -mandoc': No such file > or directory Looking at the docs for the -P option, that woul

Re: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?

2004-08-05 Thread Chris Herborth
Larry Hall wrote: I haven't seen that, but when I try to use 'man', I get this error: troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P-c -mandoc': No such file or directory I've tried tracking down this problem, presumably in one of the shell scripts (such as /usr/bin/nroff), without luck. Just a WAG but I'd su

Re: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?

2004-08-05 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:27 PM 8/5/2004, you wrote: >Fish wrote: > >>Is anyone else HAVING, or HAS anyone else HAD, the same/similar >>problem with 'man' recently or at some time in the past? > >I haven't seen that, but when I try to use 'man', I get this error: >

Re: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?

2004-08-05 Thread Chris Herborth
Fish wrote: Is anyone else HAVING, or HAS anyone else HAD, the same/similar problem with 'man' recently or at some time in the past? I haven't seen that, but when I try to use 'man', I get this error: troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P-c -mandoc': No such fi

RE: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?

2004-08-04 Thread Fish
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry Hall wrote: > I find no evidence in the list archives or my local mailbox > that a message with the subject you mentioned was sent. H... So THAT'S why I was "being ignored." :) That WOULD explain it. :) > It may have gotten lost or reje

Re: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?

2004-08-03 Thread Larry Hall
e being ignored. :( > >Is anyone else HAVING, or HAS anyone else HAD, the same/similar >problem with 'man' recently or at some time in the past? > >And if so, could/would you tell me what you finally determined the >problem was and what the solution/resolution was? (if any)

Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?

2004-08-03 Thread Fish
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I made a post recently describing a Windows permissions issue I'm having with 'man'. (Thread: "man.conf permissions problem" posted 7/31). I seem to be being ignored. :( Is anyone else HAVING, or HAS anyone else HAD, the