From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30396 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2012 01:12:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 30330 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Sep 2012 01:12:23 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from vms173009pub.verizon.net (HELO vms173009pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:12:06 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.231] ([unknown] [96.237.111.191]) by vms173009.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0M9U00CQ2RC0PWI0@vms173009.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:12:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-id: <5046A6DF.7030009@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:12:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120824 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl man pages not working. References: <50465F67.2010905@xs4all.nl> In-reply-to: <50465F67.2010905@xs4all.nl> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-09/txt/msg00057.txt.bz2 On 9/4/2012 4:07 PM, Erwin Waterlander wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed the perl man pages via setup.exe, but they don't work: > > $ man perl > No manual entry for perl > > It seems they are not there, while setup.exe says I have installed > perl_manpages version 5.14.2-3. > > $ ls /usr/share/man/*/perl* > ls: cannot access /usr/share/man/*/perl*: No such file or directory > > Also a reinstall via setup.exe does not help. The man pages are there. See the list of those installed here: But it does look like there are some key ones missing in 5.14.2 (such as perl.1). -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple