Re: xman cannot display manpage

[Harold L Hunt II]

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