From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
Subject: Re: [NT] Problem with `man' function
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:06:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uirvlz1xl.fsf@boost-consulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1ETqhQ-0003UI-O7@fencepost.gnu.org
"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> With Cygwin installed and in my PATH, `M-x man' used to work fine for
> me. In the past year, it has stopped working; all I get is "error in
> process sentinel. Can't find the xxx manpage."
>
> Could you possibly try debugging it and finding out what is really
> wrong?
>
> I don't know what the best fix might be.
>
> Nobody can tell what the best fix is
> without first finding out what is really wrong.
I can tell you that if you remove the awk command at the end of the
filter chain you still get something that looks like a man page.
Otherwise, you get something that looks like
0 (00, 0x0) = ?\C-@
And the process sentinel, understandably, has a hard time parsing it.
I don't know enough about awk nor about the NT shell command processor
to get much further with this one.
HTH,
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-25 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-23 12:02 [NT] Problem with `man' function David Abrahams
2005-10-23 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-24 1:00 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-25 22:06 ` David Abrahams [this message]
2005-10-27 1:29 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-27 5:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-27 11:00 ` David Abrahams
2005-11-05 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-10 20:54 ` Dave Abrahams
2006-05-11 3:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-11 4:26 ` David Abrahams
2006-05-11 11:44 ` David Abrahams
2006-05-11 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-11 20:23 ` David Abrahams
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