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- From: mjo@snclib.snc.edu (Mike O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: man
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.131927.1318@meteor.wisc.edu>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 13:19:27 GMT
- References: <me.0780@amiganet.chi.il.us>
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- In article <me.0780@amiganet.chi.il.us> me@amiganet.chi.il.us (Corey
- Sweeney) writes:
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- :anyone know of a PD man package? my new unix came without a man command.
- :(came without vi too)
-
- Are you sure that you even HAVE man pages? A Unix system without vi?
- Isn't that sacrilege or something? Granted, I don't think that vi is the
- greatest editor on God's green earth or anything, but it's hard for me
- to picture someone telling me to sit down at a Unix, want to edit my
- login inits, type "vi .some-dot-file", and get:
-
- vi: Command not found.
-
- To answer your question, while you're grabbing fundamental software for your
- Unix box, get perl! There's a real nice perl program that will replace the
- man command, and that's the least of perl's functionality. Both perl and
- the man program for perl are available for anonymous FTP from convex.com.
-
- If you're desperate for vi, elvis 1.6 is available for anonymous FTP from
- prep.ai.mit.edu, and if you don't have a good enough C compiler for your
- drain-bamaged Unix, you'll find gcc there too.
-
- ...Mike
-
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- Mike O'Connor
- "The NNTP Administrator"
- <mjo@snclib.snc.edu>
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