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RE: man "h" command triggers error while viewing man page
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <garbage_collector at telia dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 22:21:38 +0200
- Subject: RE: man "h" command triggers error while viewing man page
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Larry Hall
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:07 PM
> To: S Taylor
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: man "h" command triggers error while viewing man page
>
>
> S Taylor wrote:
>
> > Where else are the while-viewing-manpage shortcuts
> > explained?
> >
> > Getting help, "h" while viewing man page (e.g. man
> > man) triggers errors and blank less output
> >
> > - win98se, cygwin-1.3.22-1, bash 2.05b.09, man 1.5j,
> > less 378, $PAGER=less
> > The error dialog box says "character / not allowed
> > in @/LESS/HELP/FILE/@" , plus these details
> >
> > SH caused an invalid page fault in
> > module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff7d762.
> > Registers:
> > EAX=dbbed340 CS=0167 EIP=bff7d762 EFLGS=00010202
> > EBX=844a8db0 SS=016f ESP=0074e3c0 EBP=0074e408
> > ECX=bff7d75b DS=016f ESI=00000001 FS=45c7
> > EDX=bffc9490 ES=016f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
> > Bytes at CS:EIP:
> > 8b 0f 3b ce 76 10 8d 47 10 83 38 00 74 28 83 c0
> > Stack dump:
> > 0074e408 844945b0 00000001 00000000 bff8dd46
> > 844a8db0
> > 00000000 0074f0e0 00000000 dba66ce0 844945f0
> > bff7ffff
> > bff7dcc4 00000000 000001a4 00000000
> >
> > After closing dialog box, shows less output as
> >
> > ^G
> > Signal 127
> > ~ (repeat to bottom)
> > @/\less/\help/\file/\@ (file 2 of 2) (END)
> >
> > If previous threads/other documentation contain the
> > answer, please advise.
>
> Must be a 9x thing. Works fine here on W2K. Maybe this
> is some kind of terminal problem? What are you using as
> your terminal, command.com or rxvt?
WFM
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(Dualboot 98SE and W2K server/SP4)
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_98-4.10 P450 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown unknown
Cygwin
$ man --version
man, version 1.5j
$ less --version
less 378
Copyright (C) 2002 Mark Nudelman
less comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
For information about the terms of redistribution,
see the file named README in the less distribution.
Homepage: http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less
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/Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden
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