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From: brister@decwrl.dec.com (James Brister)
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Subject: Re: org. of local man(1) pages
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Date: 24 Oct 90 02:52:42 GMT
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In-Reply-To: tchrist@convex.com's message of 17 Oct 90 16:14:32 GMT
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On 17 Oct 90 16:14:32 GMT, tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen) said:

> Furthermore, if you have perl, you can get my man program, which has quite
> a lot of other features as well, including maintaining the whatis database
> in DBM form and dynamic indexing of man pages allowing "man ksh/alias" or
> "man perl//study".  Retrieve it from the pub/perl/scripts/tchrist/man/
> subdirectory on tut.cis.ohio-state.edu .  The program is described in "The
> Answer to All Man's Problems", Proceedings of the 1990 USENIX Large
> Systems Administration Conference (LISA) IV, Colorado Springs, CO, October
> 17-19, 1990.

I just got back from LISA and saw Tom's talk--his program looks very
interesting and is definitely worth checking out. (Couldn't solve all this
man's problems though :-)

James
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James Brister                                           brister@decwrl.dec.com
DEC Western Software Lab., Palo Alto, CA    {uunet,sun,pyramid}!decwrl!brister