On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:27:45 -0400, Lars Appel
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>Another "PS" to this "man of worms" -oops- "can of worms"...
>
>After having a closer look at my 6.0 system and my 5.5 system,
>I noticed/recalled that MANPATH can make quite a difference. If
>your system also has a man.dbz file in /etc as well as /usr/man,
>then you might want to try these two variants:
>
> shell/iX> unset MANPATH
> shell/iX> man -M /usr/man tar
> shell/iX> man -M /etc tar

Bulls eye!!! Thanks, great, yahoo. That last line finally produced the
"right" (presumably, how do you know beforehand?) man page for tar.
>
>The same test might also be "interesting" with man lp, for example.
>

Now that you mention it, I have missed these as well some time ago.

>Lars "don't shoot the messenger" ;-)

Never! thanks again.

>
>
>(considering export MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/etc:/usr/man for /etc/profile)
>
My MANPATH had been set to /usr/local/man:/usr/man in /etc/profile (in
addition to some other "fixes").
The next question is, of course, where THIS is documented (use /etc in
MANPATH) ;-)

Something else, related to online documentation: I have since MPE2.2
had a problem (well, problem ...) with a :HELP FILE ALL. It fails
after line 1023/1024:
File system error on HELP list file. (CIERR 1808)

Don't ask, it was in the early days before LASERROM etc when I wanted
to look something up on the :FILE command and didn't have the paper
documentation available. Just another peculiarity. Does this happen on
all (or at least your) system, or is it just me...
Danny A. van Delft   [log in to unmask]