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From: beierl_c@apollo.HP.COM (Christopher Beierl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: man pages
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Date: 24 Jul 90 19:12:00 GMT
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In article <7913@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jonathan@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jonathan Ball) writes:
>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.  ...

I use the following keydefs.  Shift-HELP then gives me man pages of the
correct flavor for my current context (i.e. if I'm in a BSD shell I get
BSD man pages, a SYS5 shell gives me SYS5 man pages).  Ctrl-HELP gives me
Aegis help pages.

kd r6s cpo /usr/bin/man -W @&'Show manual entry for [section] name: ' ke
kd ^r6 cv /sys/help/@&'Help on: '.hlp ke

-Chris
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