* Linda Walsh (Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:44:24 -0700) > 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.
That's because you've seen only a few Linux versions. > How is it that cygwin's manpages are case sensitive? Man pages are neither case sensitive nor case insensitive. > 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! Definitely not. > 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. That is SUSE Linux specific. > 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...;-) Cygwin is not an OS and neither is SUSE Linux. > Very weird. > Think it's possible to get the cygwin version 'enhanced'? Cygwin, Mac OS and some Linux distributions (like Gentoo and Red Hat) use a different implementation than SUSE, Debian and Ubuntu[1]. It's just that simple. Thorsten [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#External_links -- 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
