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- From: marke@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com (Mark W. Easter)
- Subject: Re: Where are the #*&^$( MAN pages?
- Sender: marke@dev1.csg.ssd.fsi.com (Mark Easter)
- Message-ID: <MARKE.92Aug26102020@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com>
- In-Reply-To: mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com's message of Tue, 25 Aug 92 06:02:18 PST
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:20:20 GMT
- References: <01050810.buvbad@mbeckman.mbeckman.com>
- Organization: FlightSafety-SSD, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- In article <01050810.buvbad@mbeckman.mbeckman.com> mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman) writes:
-
- > OK. I'll bite. Where are the man pages? I did not load the entire InfoExploder
- > lib onto my 400MB 220W, and don't usually have the CD mounted. When I request
- > a man page, I get the message "man pages not found" or something similar.
- > If the Info CD is mounted, I get about a TWO MINUTE delay while it performs
- > some horrid inverted markov linear search, and then the plain old man page.
- > 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...
-
- The man pages can be copied over from the cdrom to your hard disk.
- The following is from a response to a question of mine to IBMLINK.
- Hope it helps.
-
- I will answer your questions starting with how aix.rom gets copied
- from cdrom to disk.
-
- (Q1) Both files are not necessary. If you want aix.rom to be
- accessed from disk rather than cdrom, you would issue the
- following sequence of commands:
-
- mount -V cdrfs -o ro /dev/cd0 /mount_point
- cd /mount_point
- (An example copy)
- cp aix.rom\;1 /usr/lpp/info/En_US/aix.rom
-
- (Note in the cp command above that I escaped the ;1 with a backslash(\)
- in 'aix.rom\;1' and removed the ;1 in '/usr/lpp/info/En_US/aix.rom')
-
- (Q2) If you remount the cdrom, you will be able to access the
- copy you made to the hardfile by doing the following:
-
- The /usr/lpp/info/data/ispaths file shows where all the InfoExplorer
- data on the cdrom is located. You can edit that file to show what
- databases/files reside on cd or on disk. Here is an example of my
- copying aix.rom from the Navigation Database on the cd-rom to disk and
- how it should be referenced in ispaths:
-
- Before the Change
- ##########################################
- # info Navigation Database #
- ##########################################
- id 0
- primary TRUE
- name nav
- title Navigation
- sys /usr/lpp/info/%L/sys.sys
- key /usr/lpp/info/%L/aix/aix.key
- rom /usr/lpp/info/%L/aix/aix.rom
-
-
- After being move from cd to hard disk
- ##########################################
- # info Navigation Database #
- ##########################################
-
- id 0
- primary TRUE
- name nav
- title Navigation
- sys /usr/lpp/info/%L/sys.sys
- key /usr/lpp/info/%L/cdrom/aix/aix.key
- rom /usr/lpp/info/%L/disk/aix.rom
-
- aix.rom was copied from cd-rom to /usr/lpp/info/En_US/disk/aix.rom. I
- created two directories in /usr/lpp/info/En_US (disk and cdrom). The
- directory 'disk' holds all of the databases (i.e. aix, prog, nav)
- The 'cdrom' directory has the cd-rom mounted on it.
-
- By editing ispaths properly, whether the files be on disk or CD, they
- will be in the search path.
- --
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