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New entry "Why doesn't man work?" 

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@ -91,6 +91,20 @@ Make sure you are using the find that came with Cygwin and that you
aren't picking up the Win32 find command instead. You can verify that aren't picking up the Win32 find command instead. You can verify that
you are getting the right one by doing a "type find" in bash. you are getting the right one by doing a "type find" in bash.
@subsection Why doesn't man work?
Even after installing the @samp{man} package, you get an error like this:
@example
bash-2.03$ man man
Error executing formatting or display command.
System command (cd /usr/man ; (echo -e ".pl 1100i"; cat /usr/man/man1/man.1; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | less -is) exited with status 32512.
No manual entry for man
@end example
You also need /bin/sh, which is found in the @samp{ash} package.
Install this too.
@subsection Why doesn't chmod work? @subsection Why doesn't chmod work?
@samp{ntsec} will allow UNIX permissions in Windows NT on NTFS file systems. @samp{ntsec} will allow UNIX permissions in Windows NT on NTFS file systems.