[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: findutils-4.3.0-1

Martin Slack m.g.slack@ntlworld.com
Thu Jan 19 14:43:00 GMT 2006


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Igor Peshansky" <part man at part hippo>
To: "The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List" 
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: findutils-4.3.0-1


> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Eric Blake wrote:
> 
>> According to Igor Peshansky on 1/18/2006 8:19 AM:
>> >
>> > Umm, yeah.  Looks like either the manpage needs to be updated (or my
>> > ingrained Unix reflex to go to the manpage instead of the info file is
>> > badly out of date).  If only we had a better info reader...
>>
>> excerpts from 'man find' on 4.3.0-1
> 
> $ man -W find | xargs cygcheck -f
> findutils-4.2.25-2
> 
> Ouch!
> 
>> (ouch - how do you make man reformat a listing to 70 columns, so that I
>> can then paste it into my email without ugly wrapping? I tried
>> COLUMNS=70 man find, but to no avail):
> 

export MANWIDTH=70





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