Re: Upgraded man command

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Andy Hall wrote:

> I updated my cygwin system on my W2K SP4 systemto the latest release of
> cygwin and the man command started to display man pages as follows:
>
> ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
>        ln - make links between files
>
> ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
>        ESC[1mln ESC[22m[ESC[4mOPTIONESC[24m]... ESC[4mTARGETESC[24m
> [ESC[4mLINK_NAMEESC[24m]
>        ESC[1mln ESC[22m[ESC[4mOPTIONESC[24m]... ESC[4mTARGETESC[24m...
> ESC[4mDIRECTORYESC[0m
>        ESC[1mln ESC[22m[ESC[4mOPTIONESC[24m]...
> ESC[4m--target-directory=DIRECTORYESC[24m ESC[4mTARGETESC[24m...
>
> Interestingly, the man pages previously cached in /usr/man/cat1 seem to
> format just fine.  If I remove the cached version, I get something akin to
> the above.
>
> I suspect this is some sort of setup problem, but I have been unable to
> track it down.  All involved commands seem to be up-to-date.

I see that neither of MANPAGER, PAGER, and LESS is set in your
environment.  Are you running straight "man", or is it aliased to
something?  Is your /usr/share/misc/man.conf different from
/usr/share/misc/man.conf.default?  If it is, the differences might give
you a clue as to what went wrong.  What is the output of "man -cd ln |
tail -1"?
	Igor
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