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- From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.vms-posix
- Subject: Re: name of VMS product has changed...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.151459.3650@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 19:14:59 GMT
- References: <2415@mitech.com> <1992Aug18.091028@mccall.com> <1992Aug18.223322.25145@src.honeywell.com> <1992Aug19.030903.3648@spcvxb.spc.edu> <1992Aug19.155548.8873@decuk.uvo.dec.com>
- Organization: St. Peter's College, US
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- In article <1992Aug19.155548.8873@decuk.uvo.dec.com>, corne@jc3100.enet.dec.com (John Corne) writes:
- > Have you tried to uncompress the help library? Takes up more space,
- > but is quicker to start printing. (This doesn't help much with the
- > delays per line though, which is a side effect of the way man uses help to
- > do its work). I can't say I like the way man works from within the POSIX shell,
- > either.
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- Yes - all the help libraries have been decompressed. HELP VMS_POSIX SHELL TAR
- works just fine from native VMS. It looks like man tries to do character-at-a-
- time I/O through a mailbox or something equally odd.
-
- Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
- terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
- terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381
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