Re: xman cannot display manpage

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

I don't think anyone has guaranteed that xman works properly in 
Cygwin/XFree86.  I have launched it a few times and been generally 
disappointed everytime.  Other than that, I haven't really used it.

Someone will have to be annoyned enough with xman to search for the 
problem on their own...

Harold

WU, ALEX (SBCSI) wrote:
> My system is Win2000, running cygwin 1.3.18.
>
> I could start xman to display the first manpage, but it failed to
> display the next manpage. 
> The symptom is:
> error message displayed in concole: 
> cannot create /tmp/xman002444: permission denied
>
> xman displays "PleaseStandby" dialog with the following warning message in 
> the xman main window:
> Something went wrong trying to run the command: cd /usr/man; tbl ... | neqn
> | nroff -man > /tmp/xman002444 2> /dev/null
>
> I checked strace output, it seemed that it did access
> c:\cygwin\tmp\xman002444, 
> I have correct permission for /tmp:
> drwxrwxrwt+  23 admin    adminstr    28672 Feb  7 16:40 /tmp
>
> Does anyone experience the same problem w/ xman?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Alex