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to: Jasen Betts
from: Roy J. Tellason
date: 2003-08-15 04:06:04
subject: Cygwin

Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Bill Birrell:

 JB> until you get your layout sorted the pipe '|' will will be on a 
 JB> symbol key be near one of the corners of the keyboard, it's 
 JB> shifted. (i'd be more specific but they move the balasted thing
 JB> round on different US keyboards...)

Yeah.  I've got it in three different places on three keyboards here.  On
this one it's above a smaller enter key,  on another one it's below a big
enter key,  and on the third it's up next to a smaller backspace key.

 JB> try "less" instead of "more"

Agreed.

 BB> Problem 3 - can't find man to do man -k anything. The man pages
 BB> are all there, though

I've hit that one too,  where the man pages were installed but the man and
other executables weren't...

 JB> try info

Ugh.  Why stuff is available *only* in that format sometimes is beyond me...

Know of a way to convert that stuff to man pages,  or html?

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