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From: jonathan@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jonathan Ball)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: man pages
Message-ID: <7913@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 24 Jul 90 17:21:51 GMT
References: <23816@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
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Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <23816@boulder.Colorado.EDU> tomf@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (FREDERICKS THOMAS M) writes:

>	The help key on my system used to bring up stuff out of /sys/help.
>	Now it brings up man pages, what causes this?  Can it be changed 
>	back to /sys/help?

It's probably because the file /etc/environ (really
/sys/node_data/etc/environ) was changed.  It defines a variable called
ENVIRONMENT which can be set to `aegis', `bsd', or `sysv'.  If it is one of
the latter two, I think the help automatically assumes you want man pages.
The only way I can think of to change the help key's behaviour is to change
the ENVIRONMENT back to `aegis' and reboot the machine.

Jon
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