Well, the problem is solved.  Some of it was my misunderstanding about
posix and some may have been the permissions.  We have three more 5.5
systems I can find out which were which.

What I have done

/etc/motd
/etc/profile
/etc/lib/terminfo/h/*
/etc/lib/terminfo/*
/usr/man/*

all have been chmod'ed to 555

Now, my problem was the way I understand setting variables.  On HP-UX, I
have no problem issues commands like:

$ TERM=hp2392a
$ export $TERM

or

$ TERM='hp2392a'
$ export $TERM

both get the same result: "vi" works, "man" or "more" fail with Unkown
terminal "".


What I finally did to make everything work is:

$ export TERM='hp2392a'

Then everything seems to work ok.

Can someone tell me what the difference is?

Thanks

/alan

Alan "I thought I had the basics of unix down and
      doesn't posix supposed to do this" Ambers