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- From: mtimm@auk.UWaterloo.ca (Martin Timmerman)
- Subject: Re: Where are the #*&^$( MAN pages?
- Message-ID: <BtJu70.Brz@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <01050810.buvbad@mbeckman.mbeckman.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:06:36 GMT
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- In article <01050810.buvbad@mbeckman.mbeckman.com> mbeckman@mbeckman.com writes:
- >OK. I'll bite. Where are the man pages?
- >I'm willing to sacrifice the 15MB or so that text-only man pages would occupy,
- >but I can't find the suckers! Local IBM support says they believe that
- >man pages don't exist at all because of the graphical IE, but clearly this
- >is false, as regular unix-style text-only man pages DO eventually appear
- >if the IE CD is mounted. Thanks for shedding light...
- >
- /usr/lpp/bos/bsdadm contains some potential shell scripts for
- converting the information from InfoExplorer into flat text form. See
- Section 7. Online Documentation (man).
-
- Martin Timmerman, University of Waterloo
-