Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!asylum!herctec!root
From: root@herctec.UUCP (Super user)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: man page system for SCO Xenix
Message-ID: <30@herctec.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 90 16:19:28 GMT
References: <90224.143130NEASE@MAINE.BITNET>
Reply-To: root@herctec.UUCP (Super user)
Organization: Hercules Computer Technology, Inc.
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In article <90224.143130NEASE@MAINE.BITNET> NEASE@MAINE.BITNET writes:
>A client of mine has SCO Xenix 2.3.2 on a 386.  I'm used to BSD and its
>man page setup, instead of the skimpy help system on Xenix.  I tried talking
>to sales-types at SCO about a man page system.  Some of them thought that
>maybe the text processing package *might* have the man page support, others
>weren't sure.  Upgrading to SCO Unix 3.2 simply to get man pages is not
>an option.
> 
>Does anybody know which, if any, SCO product for Xenix has the man support?
[...]
>   Reid M. Pinchback

	I may be naive on this subject, but for my Xenix 2.3.2 setup,
getting the man pages for everything was a matter of inserting the
disk labelled "On-Line Manual Pages."

	It's rather strange that the SCO people didn't know what you
were talking about.  Either (a) they're clueless, (b) what I have here
was only released on a limited basis (granted, the majority of Xenix
systems I've been on have no man pages installed), or (c) I'm just
imagining things!

	BTW, I have man pages on the text processing system, as well as
the development system and all the basics, like the "ls" command and
uucp...



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