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Re: rxvt installation results in broken man/info pages, & unreadable shell prompt
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Matthew Johnson <mej1960 at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:49:30 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: rxvt installation results in broken man/info pages, & unreadable shell prompt
- References: <20050219040923.72444.qmail@web20425.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Matthew Johnson wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I installed the rxvt package about 15 minutes ago, and
> find that typing 'rxvt' does launch it, but only with
> an unusable prompt (its not interpreting the escape
> characters of the cygwin default PS1).
This is one case where Google helps: the second match when searching for
"rxvt prompt cygwin" (without the quotes) gives the answer. BTW, the FAQ
also explains it, albeit as part of another question:
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC65>.
> So I typed 'man rxvt' to try to learn how to fix this, and was surprised
> to see very strange text: it looks like it jumped into the middle of the
> manpage and failed to interpreted the .YOLDTAGSTART tags.
This is another. Google for "YODLTAGSTART".
> I see the same thing in 'info rxvt'.
Not surprising, as 'info rxvt' should say at the top "File: *manpages*,
Node: rxvt, Up: (dir)".
> Finally, the FAQ refers us to a file named
> "/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-<ver>".
Where? The only reference to "doc/Cygwin/rxvt" was the entry I referred
to above, and it says "/usr/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-<ver>.README".
> No such file exists. In fact, 'cd /usr/share/doc/Cygwin' followed by 'ls
> rxvt*' comes up with nothing.
"rxvt" is one package that didn't get updated to the new Cygwin FHS.
BTW, "cygcheck -l rxvt | grep README" would have shown you exactly where
it was.
> Did somebody break the rxvt package on the mirrors?
No, 2.7.10-4 really is the latest version, as the package search page at
<http://cygwin.com/packages/> will show you.
> And why _is_ it dated 26 Mar 2003?
Because it hasn't been updated since.
Igor
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