Re: man "h" command triggers error while viewing man page

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh 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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