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Newbie: Where's ed, vi, more (or less), man?
- From: Andy Civil <putmyfullnamehere at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:05:07 -0400
- Subject: Newbie: Where's ed, vi, more (or less), man?
Hi, a newbie here, my objective was to install Cygwin for a friend so
that she could use vi.
I've installed cygwin successfully, but various fundamental programs are
missing, notably vi (or even ed) more (or less) and man (despite the
fact that there are 801 files in /usr/man).
I've searched the packages in the setup program, but vi isn't listed
separately, and I installed everything anyway.
I've tried to search but the package search brings up anything with "vi"
in it, like "view" or "divide" or "david" :-) and the gmane newsgroup
search says "ignoring common word: vi".
It would help me if I could know basic information like, should I expect
to find vi with cygwin? I thought the main advantage of vi over other
editors was that it was found on absolutely EVERY unix system there was.
Should I be looking somewhere else for a package? And if so, how do I
find which package vi is in, when the word "vi" is impossible to search for.
I'm also concerned that I did something wrong, since even "less" doesn't
work. This is most odd, since there are scripts like "zless" which
clearly expect "less" to be a valid command.
As requested in the posting guidelines, here is my output from cygcheck:
Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Sun Aug 17 08:24:47 2003
Windows 98 Ver 4.10 Build 1998
Path:
C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
C:\cygwin\bin
C:\cygwin\bin
c:\WINDOWS
c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (nontsec)
UID: 31009(ruthy) GID: 544(all)
544(all)
C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (ntsec)
UID: 31009(ruthy) GID: 544(all)
544(all)
SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS
HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\ruthy'
MAKE_MODE = `unix'
PWD = `/home/ruthy'
USER = `ruthy'
CMDLINE = `bash --login -i'
COMSPEC = `C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM'
CVS_RSH = `/bin/ssh'
HOMEDRIVE = `C:'
HOMEPATH = `\cygwin\home\ruthy'
INFOPATH =
`/usr/local/info:/usr/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/autotool/devel/info:/usr/autotool/stable/info:'
MANPATH = `/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/autotool/devel/man:'
OLDPWD = `/usr/bin'
PROMPT = `$p$g'
PS1 = `$ '
SHLVL = `1'
TEMP = `c:\WINDOWS\TEMP'
TERM = `cygwin'
TMP = `c:\WINDOWS\TEMP'
WINBOOTDIR = `C:\WINDOWS'
WINDIR = `C:\WINDOWS'
_ = `/usr/bin/cygcheck'
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
(default) = `/cygdrive'
cygdrive flags = 0x00000022
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/
(default) = `C:\cygwin'
flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin
(default) = `C:\cygwin/bin'
flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib
(default) = `C:\cygwin/lib'
flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
a: fd N/A N/A
c: hd FAT32 12397Mb 2% CP UN RUTHY
d: hd FAT32 38152Mb 44% CP UN 40_GIGA
e: cd N/A N/A
C:\cygwin / system binmode
C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode
C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system binmode
. /cygdrive system binmode,cygdrive
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe
Not Found: cpp (good!)
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
Found: c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\find.exe
Warning: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe hides c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\find.exe
Not Found: gcc
Not Found: gdb
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe
Not Found: ld
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
Not Found: make
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe
58k 2002/05/07 C:\cygwin\bin\cygbz2-1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygbz2-1.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/5/7 2:33
19k 2003/03/22 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cyggdbm.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/2/19 22:05
28k 2003/07/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm-3.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cyggdbm-3.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/7/20 3:58
15k 2003/07/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm_compat-3.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0
sys=4.0
"cyggdbm_compat-3.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/7/20 4:00
945k 2003/06/18 C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygiconv-2.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/6/17 23:08
22k 2001/12/13 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygintl-1.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/12/13 4:28
28k 2002/09/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-2.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygintl-2.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/9/19 23:13
45k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygform5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:28
26k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygmenu5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:27
156k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygncurses++5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:29
226k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygncurses5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:17
15k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygpanel5.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:27
35k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygform6.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 1:03
20k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygmenu6.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 1:03
175k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygncurses++6.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 1:03
202k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygncurses6.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 1:03
12k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygpanel6.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 1:03
76k 2003/03/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform7.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygform7.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/3/9 15:51
48k 2003/03/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu7.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygmenu7.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/3/9 15:51
284k 2003/03/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses7.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygncurses7.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/3/9 15:50
31k 2003/03/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel7.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygpanel7.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/3/9 15:50
63k 2003/04/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygpcre.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/4/11 4:31
61k 2003/04/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcreposix.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygpcreposix.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/4/11 4:31
17k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cyghistory4.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/1/6 23:34
108k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygreadline4.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/1/6 23:34
20k 2002/10/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cyghistory5.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/10/10 13:28
127k 2002/10/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygreadline5.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/10/10 13:28
50k 2002/03/12 C:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygz.dll" v0.0 ts=2002/3/11 23:38
948k 2003/03/18 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
"cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/3/18 9:20
Cygwin DLL version info:
DLL version: 1.3.22
DLL epoch: 19
DLL bad signal mask: 19005
DLL old termios: 5
DLL malloc env: 28
API major: 0
API minor: 78
Shared data: 3
DLL identifier: cygwin1
Mount registry: 2
Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
Program options name: Program Options
Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
Cygdrive default prefix:
Build date: Tue Mar 18 09:20:11 EST 2003
CVS tag: dontuse-21
Shared id: cygwin1S3
Cygwin Package Information
Last downloaded files to: D:\03_Cygwin
Last downloaded files from: D:\03_Cygwin
Package Version
_update-info-dir 00197-1
ash 20020731-1
base-files 2.0-2
base-passwd 1.1-1
bash 2.05b-9
bzip2 1.0.2-2
cygwin 1.3.22-1
diffutils 2.8.1-1
fileutils 4.1-1
findutils 4.1.7-4
gawk 3.1.3-1
gdbm 1.8.3-3
grep 2.5-1
gzip 1.3.3-4
libbz2_1 1.0.2-2
libgdbm 1.8.0-5
libgdbm-devel 1.8.3-3
libgdbm3 1.8.3-3
libiconv2 1.8-3
libintl1 0.10.40-1
libintl2 0.11.5-1
libncurses5 5.2-1
libncurses6 5.2-8
libncurses7 5.3-1
libpcre 4.1-1
libreadline4 4.1-2
libreadline5 4.3-2
login 1.9-5
ncurses 5.3-1
readline 4.3-2
sed 4.0.7-1
sh-utils 2.0.15-3
tar 1.13.25-1
termcap 20021106-2
terminfo 5.3_20030726-1
texinfo 4.2-4
textutils 2.0.21-1
which 1.5-1
zlib 1.1.4-1
Use -h to see help about each section
Thanks
--
Andy
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