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Re: [NT] Problem with `man' function
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [NT] Problem with `man' function |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:06:46 +0200 |
> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:29:07 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> > 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).