John Burke wrote:

> I second the "thank you, Stan!". whois works great.

yup :-)

> Anyone figure out though why the man page does not work?

yup (again :-)

(...and don't point fingers at stan...he's only the porter) whois 'assumes'
that nroff (what is 'nroff' anyhow?) is installed on your system.  for 3000
folks, this means you've installed at least gnugroff.  i suspect that you also
need gnucore as well (any idea mark k.?).  don't let this gnu requirement put
you off.  you can always run whois (the binary).  having help is nice but not
functionally necessary.  otoh, (thanks to mark's hard work...) the gnu packages
install quickly and smoothly and give a great number of 'shell'
toys...err...programs :-)

> As another test, I added some text to /usr/local/man/man1/whois.1 bracketed
> by the ".HS" and ".HE" descriptors.
>
>         help whois
>
> is supposed to display this text, but instead returns "No information on
> whois".

can't help you on this on.  i suspect that 'help' is unique to mpe's
shell.            - d

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