cygwin is more like RedHat than Suse and there's many diffirence between diffirent linuxes
2010/7/14 Linda Walsh <[email protected]>: > How many different versions of 'man' are there, anyway? > > I've always wondered why cygwin's was so different from the few > linux versions I've seen -- bug especially in this sense. > > How is it that cygwin's manpages are case sensitive? Aren't they > stored in files on a case-insensitive file system that should be able > to find file-based man pages no matter what case you type in? > > The reason I ask, is that on linux, not only does the man program > have a "-i" option to ignore case, but its also the default! > > So maybe cygwin could catchup to linux in this regard and go for ease of > use? > > From the SuSE linux manpage for "man", regarding the "-i" option. > > -i, --ignore-case > Ignore case when searching for manual pages. > This is the default. > > But cygwin, it's not even an option to ignore case? > I'm almost wondering if someone switched the man programs on the > two OS's...;-) > > Very weird. > Think it's possible to get the cygwin version 'enhanced'? > > > > > > -- > 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 > > -- 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
