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Subject: Re: perl man pages not working.
From: Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>
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On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)  wrote:
> On 9/4/2012 4:07 PM, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
>> 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:
>
> <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=perl_manpages%2Fperl_manpages-5.14.2-3&grep=perl_manpages>
>
> But it does look like there are some key ones missing in 5.14.2 (such
> as perl.1).

Oops, blush.
Thanks for the report
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