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Re: man-1.4j MANPATH semi-functional [UPD: GNUWin32 package report]
- To: Bjoern dot Kulms at rz dot tu-ilmenau dot de
- Subject: Re: man-1.4j MANPATH semi-functional [UPD: GNUWin32 package report]
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 04:56:44 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: gw32 <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
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.
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---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o----
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---Björn Kulms <Bjoern.Kulms@rz.tu-ilmenau.de> 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.
>
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