On 10/21/2010 1:22 AM, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > seems to work here ! even on cpan.1 generated from pod2man...
Just curious, what part of 'man2pdf' did you run that indicates that it works on your system? (Commands and options, would be most helpful.) > do you have bash-completion, if yes, get rid of it and try again. Bash completion is installed on my system but never loaded; i.e., /etc/bash_completion is not sourced in '~/.bashrc', or '~/.profile', or anywhere else. Why do you think this is the cause of the problem? You might be combining two parts of my report in a misleading way. The slowdown was due to the errant Bash sessions not the cause of them. A reboot eventually returned the system to its normal sluggish state (for Cygwin on a 64-bit version of Windoze). Or, what don't I understand? Notice: -- $ time bash -i -c echo real 0m0.683s user 0m0.015s sys 0m0.186s $ time bash -c echo real 0m0.342s user 0m0.015s sys 0m0.062s -- I'm more inclined to believe that it has something to do with either: * the "extreme" number of processes generated by: 'mkperlmanpdfs'/'man2pdf' and interaction possibly with a 'bash' bug or * corrupt fonts in Windows or Cygwin that 'man'/'groff' is "barfing" on. WRT the font "issue" (real or imagined on my part), I'm unclear on whether Cygwin can use Windows TT fonts for things like 'groff', and X windows rendering. (I would like to know, for example, how to specify which fonts to 'enscript'.) *But*, *I know I don't know what I'm talking about and that's why I asked the Cygwin list.* > PS : where do you find the Club-G package ? The Club-G (TM) scripts are an interdependent set that I wrote, which will be published, RSN, on OpenEnterprise.org/Club-G. "Club-G" (TM), BTW, stands for: Cygwin Linux Unix BSD - GNU -- largely, the embodiment, personification, and repository for all the best aggregate wisdom of the above (The weasel word, "largely", is *largely* due to 'info' vs 'man'! Every man [not 'man'] has his hamartia, and RSM's is, IMHO, 'info'! 'info' is definitely one "cathedral" that's bizarre!) ;-) > Cyrille Lefevre Thanks, Lee -- 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