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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
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Subject: Re: /usr/NeWS/bin man pages?
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Date: 31 Oct 90 00:08:57 GMT
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In article <3620@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, millercb@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Clifford B Miller) writes:
|> Browsing through the [3.2] file system, one comes across
|> /usr/NeWS/bin/*, most of which is SGI binary, and most of which has no
|> man pages or in fact any reference/explanation in the manuals.  Most

/usr/NeWS/bin is a symbolic link to /usr/sbin.  The majority of commands in
/usr/sbin do have man pages.  If you installed 4Dgifts binaries when you
installed or upgraded your system, then all of the 4Dgifts image processing
commands appear in /usr/sbin.  These do not have man pages.  There is a
README file in ~4Dgifts/iristools/imgtools that describes them all.

|> 
|> While I'm on the subject, there's also some undocumented stuff in 
|> /usr/lib/print, which I'm also interested in.

This stuff has to do with the lp subsystem.  I think most of them are filters
for various printers.  These programs are typically invoked by lp not by
the user.

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