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- From: mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Where are the #*&^$( MAN pages?
- Message-ID: <01050810.c1rrfo@mbeckman.mbeckman.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 16:21:04 GMT
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- Organization: Beckman Software Engineering
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- In article <1992Aug25.222818.11370@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> (comp.unix.aix), mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown) writes:
- > Mel, there really *aren't* any man pages. The AIX 'man' command
- > searches the Info database, gets the hits, *formats* them to look like a
- > "manpage", and puts it on the screen.
- >
-
- Mark,
-
- It turns out there *are* man pages. A procedure is documented in
- /usr/lpp/bos/bsdadm for extracting them in flat file & troff form to the
- hard drive. I did it; it works great. I think I may write up the whole
- thing and post it here, because there are a few mistakes in the procedure,
- and some incomplete info. But it took me just a couple of hours (mostly while
- the extractor hashed through the CD).
-
- -mel
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