Re: [NT] Problem with `man' function

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:29:07 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
>     > Nobody can tell what the best fix is
>     > without first finding out what is really wrong.
> 
>     I can tell you that if you remove the awk command at the end of the
>     filter chain you still get something that looks like a man page.
>     Otherwise, you get something that looks like 
> 
>       0 (00, 0x0) = ?\C-@
> 
>     And the process sentinel, understandably, has a hard time parsing it.
>     I don't know enough about awk nor about the NT shell command processor
>     to get much further with this one.
> 
> This might be enough to enable the people interested in Windows
> to fix it.

Not for me, it isn't.  Sorry.

To try to debug and fix it, I need to know:

  (1) What shell is being used to run the commands in the pipeline
      that produces the man page;

  (2) What ports of gawk and Sed are used (presumably Cygwin, but
      that's a guess).