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- From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
- Subject: Re: Info and Man
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.153618.24283@cdsac.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:36:18 GMT
- References: <76320@ut-emx.uucp>
- Organization: Cable Data (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA
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- In article <76320@ut-emx.uucp> huq@hagar.ph.utexas.edu (Mijan Huq.) writes:
- >
- > We have a network of RS6000's all using one CDROM to get their man pages and info off of. The
- >biggest problem with it is that it is terribly slow. Even on the machine that the CDROM is directly
- >connected to, the man pages take ages to come up. I would like to move the man pages to the /usr/man
- >tree to speed man up a bit. I have looked at the files on the CDROM. Some of the files that I would
- >need are large. The files on the CDROM are large and are single files containing groups of information.
- >Is it possible for me to extract man pages in the usual format from these?
- > Any suggestions or ideas would help.
-
- No, you cannot extract normal-format man pages and put them in
- /usr/man. What you can do, essentially, is umount the CDROM from
- "/usr/lpp/info/En_US" (change "En_US" to the appropriate place for
- your language). Re-mount the CDROM elsewhere (like on /cdrom). Then,
- copy all of the stuff from the CDROM into the "/usr/lpp/info/En_US"
- directory (directly onto hard disk).
-
- For the detailed description on how to do this, look in info under
- "How to Copy InfoExplorer Information Bases from CD-ROM to Fixed Disk".
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- L. Scott Emmons
- csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
-