Help:getting man to work?

Fri Oct 23 00:05:00 GMT 1998

Try "mount" to see how they are mounted. When I do this, I see:
 > mount
 Device Directory Type Flags
 \\.\tape1: /dev/st1 native text=binary
 \\.\tape0: /dev/st0 native text=binary
 \\.\b: /dev/fd1 native text=binary 
 \\.\a: /dev/fd0 native text=binary
 C: / native text=binary
which means that all my mounts are binary. A non-binary mount will say
"text!=binary". You can
fiddle the binary flag by using regedt32 (on NT) or regedit to change
the fbinary flag for each 
mount under hkey_current_user/software/cygnus solutions/cygwin.dll
setup/b15.0/mounts/*.
The behavior of the mount command is very flaky in my experience. As
you can see, I don't use any mounts except for the root dir. All my
other mounts are done with symlinks (which are flaky as well).
BTW, see my earlier post today about using less. You may need to set
TERM to ansi instead of linux (and get the ncurses package).
John Wiersba (john.wiersba@medstat.com)
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Campbell [ mailto:randyc@fc.hp.com ]
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 5:10 PM
To: Michael Hirmke; gnu-win32@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Help: getting man to work?
>>What else am I missing?
>>Do you have binary mounts ?
>They are *absolutely* necessary for these packages.

Being somewhat new to this environment, I must confess I don't know.
How can I tell, and how can I create them if necessary?
Thanks,
Randy
PS: thanks for earlier response referring me to set and export TERM to
linux,
but I had already done that.
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