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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: findutils-4.3.0-1


----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Peshansky" <part man at part hippo>
To: "The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List" Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: findutils-4.3.0-1



On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Eric Blake wrote:

According to Igor Peshansky on 1/18/2006 8:19 AM:
>
> Umm, yeah.  Looks like either the manpage needs to be updated (or my
> ingrained Unix reflex to go to the manpage instead of the info file is
> badly out of date).  If only we had a better info reader...

excerpts from 'man find' on 4.3.0-1

$ man -W find | xargs cygcheck -f findutils-4.2.25-2

Ouch!

(ouch - how do you make man reformat a listing to 70 columns, so that I
can then paste it into my email without ugly wrapping? I tried
COLUMNS=70 man find, but to no avail):


export MANWIDTH=70





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