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Re: Handy script offering
- To: "jorgens at coho dot net" <jorgens at coho dot net>,"cygwin at cygwin dot Com (E-mail)" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: Handy script offering
- From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit at home dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 13:17:34 -0400
At 7/20/01 05:44 AM (Friday), Steve Jorgensen wrote:
>Ok, perhaps no one cares, but as one of the many 'nix newbies who start
>playing with Cygwin, I scratched an itch that other newbies might have.
>
>The problem is that when you type man <command>, but you enter the common
>command name that all the books tell you about rather than the name of the
>program that's a symlink to on Cygwin, there appears to be no manpage.
> This one bit me, and I thought there was no man page for "awk" not
>realizing I should be asking for "man gawk".
Little do I know, but would it not make sense that
if "awk" => "gawk" then "awk.1" => "gawk.1" etc.
(IOW, symlink the man pages.)
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