Cygwin manpages clobbered

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Thu May 9 21:15:00 GMT 2013


On 5/9/2013 3:37 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using stock Cygwin 1.7.18-1, and tried to read manpages about Cygwin
> path conversion routines, cygwin_conv_path() et al.  The output does not
> appear formatted properly, e.g. DESCRIPTION goes as a single paragraph,
> but clearly is supposed to have some list formatting for the CCP bits
> and errors.  It's still readable but...  well, messy.

WFM.  Perhaps check some of the 'man' environment variables.
MANPAGER is a common one to have problems with.  Perhaps something
has changed in your '/etc/man.conf' too?


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Larry

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