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RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Herb Martin <HerbM at learnquick dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:00:33 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8
- References: <EIL92G9-0003B0-56@mail2.learnquick.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote:
> > > cygcheck can show a version when the program is not
> > > even there (either not installed or missing)
> >
> > Why do you say that the Cygwin man was not installed? From
> > everything you've posted it was installed just fine, but your
> > other version of man was found first in the path.
>
> No, it wasnt' THERE. There was no man.exe AND the "other man" was LATER
> on the path even had there been such a file.
"cygcheck -cv man" should have shown that the "man" package was
incomplete, and listed the files that it thought were missing.
> I used setup and re-installed it. The other item, still later on the
> path was being picked up. So I deleted the other man, and then bash
> complained that the deleted file was missing even though the "right one"
> is in /usr/bin and the "wrong one" is gone.
'which man'? 'type -a man'?
> I still haven't found an encantation for "hash" (or the proper command)
> so temporarily I put a link in the "wrong location" to point to the
> correct man.exe.
It should be "hash -t man man.exe" (or "hash -t man{,.exe}")...
Igor
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