xman cannot display manpage
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Sat Feb 8 01:35:00 GMT 2003
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
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