From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [NT] Problem with `man' function Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:06:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130389859 9629 80.91.229.2 (27 Oct 2005 05:10:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 05:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dave@boost-consulting.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 27 07:10:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EUzye-0003bi-Jd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:07:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EUzyd-0008Fy-Ra for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:06:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EUzyV-0008EU-Hd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EUzyT-0008CA-5W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EUzyT-0008C7-17 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:06:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EUzyR-0006JK-Vl; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:06:48 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-87-121.inter.net.il [80.230.87.121]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.6.5-GR) with ESMTP id BUC00495 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:06:43 +0200 (IST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (rms@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:44954 Archived-At: > From: "Richard M. Stallman" > 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).