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Re: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 06:19:32PM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote:
>FYI:
>
>I'm making my work on this subject available to any one who want to
>download my work. At
> http://pmcferrin.homedns.org/lman2.cpio.gz
>is a copy of the Linux/BSD manual pages of Section 2 of the man
>directory. If these man pages symbols are NOT in cygwin1.dll file, the
>files has been moved to a .deleted directory.
>
>Please be advised that this TOTALLY UNOFFICIAL. They have NOT been
>reviewed for correctness with Cygwin. They are however a valuable
>resource. Enjoy. I would advised putting these pages into a local man
>directory, separate from system installation. They were downloaded from:
> http://www.bigbiz.com/cgi-bin/listman?2
>which were <PRE> pre-formatted .html files converted back to man files;
>including <B> & <I> processing for dumb rxvt windows.
Indiscriminately using linux manpages on Cygwin is likely going to add
to confusion. Any man pages have to be tested for accuracy.
cgf
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