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Re: man "h" command triggers error while viewing man page
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: S Taylor <dountootherstoo at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:02:20 -0400
- Subject: Re: man "h" command triggers error while viewing man page
- References: <20030806213450.21639.qmail@web41209.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
S Taylor wrote:
--- Larry Hall <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
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?
I tried it in both with the same result.
I believe $TERM is set to cygwin for command.com,
may be rxvt or linux for rxvt.
Well, that spoils the theory that the problem is related to
some weird console problem on 9x. I guess it's just a general
problem on 9x. ;-)
TERM is indeed set to 'cygwin' under command.com/cmd.exe and
'rxvt' for rxvt. My question was, which one of these two
programs were you using. You've answered that (i.e. both).
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