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Re: Weird stuff with 'man' and 'tset' programs


Igor,

Thank you for the reply.  That solved the problems
nicely.  I had done some searching in the archive mail
lists, but obviously not with the correct criteria.


Roy

--- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Roy H. wrote:
> 
> > Something weird is going on with my cygwin.  I
> first
> > noticed it when I ran 'vim' and it said that it
> did
> > not recognize a terminal type of 'cygwin'.  Ok, so
> I
> > set the TERM environment to "ansi".  That seemed
> to
> > work, but I noticed that the arrow keys to move
> around
> > with did not work.  So then I went and reset the
> > terminal by using the command 'tset'.  This came
> back
> > and said that it did not recognized a terminal of
> > cygwin, or ansi, or anything else.  I checked my
> files
> > and I have ncurses and terminfo installed, and the
> > files for the various terminal definitions are in
> > '/usr/lib/terminfo' right where they are supposed
> to
> > be.
> >
> > Then I went to see what the man pages said about
> this.
> >  The man program worked, but it comes back and
> says
> > "No manual entry for tset", or for any programs. 
> I
> > made sure that I had a good MANPATH, and exported
> it.
> > Did not help.  I have a valid '/etc.man.config'
> file,
> > and if I start man with the -d option, it echoes
> out
> > the paths as listed in the '/etc.man.config' file.
> > Even when I specify the man path directory by
> using
> > 'man -M /usr/man man
> > ', it still says it can not find the man page.
> >
> > My PATH works fine, but who knows what else does
> not
> > really work.
> >
> > I could really use a little help with this
> problem.
> >
> > I am running Win 2k all of the cygwin programs are
> up
> > to date.  My shell is bash.  Below is the out put
> from
> > 'cygcheck -s'.
> > [snip]
> 
> Roy,
> 
> First off, please *attach* the output of cygcheck,
> as per
> <http://cygwin.com/bugs.html>, due to it introducing
> false positives into
> archives search when in the body of the message.
> 
> Secondly, read the following thread:
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02095.html>
> 
> An archive search for "terminfo" found it, BTW.
> 	Igor
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> 


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