Hi David,
If I understand your question well, you need to re-install POSIX.
Here what you need to do:
1.  :RESTORE @.HP36431.SUPPORT and I0036431.USL.SYS from the FOS tape.
2. :STREAM I0036431.USL.SYS

This job will explode all HFS name space to the MPE file space.

Just catalog HPPXUDC.PUB.SYS and you should be ok.  Access the shell with
:SH

Mario Tremblay
HP Montreal Response Center
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David Patterson wrote in message ...
Hello all,
      After seeing all of the brilliant answers and help this list has
provided, I am hoping that someone can help me with a small question about
POSIX.  I am a fairly new HP-3000 programmer, (about 1 year).  Before that I
was working with UNIX.  I am familiar with UNIX and it seems POSIX would be
of some use to me (scripts, AWK, etc...).  However on our system it does not
seem to be set up (if that makes sense?).  I cannot access the man pages and
various other things.  I talked to the "powers that be" and they told me
they are not that familiar with POSIX because they have not seen a need to
use any of it's features.  Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I may
be able to do in this situation (re: POSIX ).

TIA,

David Patterson
Programmer/Analyst
MIS
City of Lawton, OK.