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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: dave@boost-consulting.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [NT] Problem with `man' function
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:06:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur7a7eeft.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EUwZn-0003Rl-Mp@fencepost.gnu.org> (rms@gnu.org)

> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:29:07 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>     > 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.
> 
> This might be enough to enable the people interested in Windows
> to fix it.

Not for me, it isn't.  Sorry.

To try to debug and fix it, I need to know:

  (1) What shell is being used to run the commands in the pipeline
      that produces the man page;

  (2) What ports of gawk and Sed are used (presumably Cygwin, but
      that's a guess).

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-27  5:06 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
2005-10-27  1:29     ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-27  5:06       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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