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From: das15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Douglas A Scott)
Subject: Re: man & Librarian
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1991 14:25:26 GMT

In article <HARDY.91Apr1214413@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
>An imperfect solution to your problem:
>1. (all as su)  run catman (to get formatted files)
>2  rename, compress, or remove thoe old index.ixif file (dated Nov 10,
>and provided courtesy of NeXT).
>3. chmod -R a+w he directory ... Unix/ManPages
>4. index the directory by running 
>ixBuild -CV -NManPages

	I was able to get Librarian to re-index all the proper man pages
	without having to resort to the ixbuild command.  The problem has
	to do with the flags that are passed to ixBuild when it is run by
	librarian.  I dont remember if I changed any permissions on dirs...
	I may have run Librarian as root.  The main thing is to add or change
	the file /NextLibrary/Documentation/Unix/ManPages/.index to read as
	follows:

	-fman -Nwhatis -Ncat\* -V /NextLibrary/Documentation/Unix/ManPages

	This worked like a charm.

	I sure hope NeXT will fix the problems with Librarian in 2.2.  It
	makes me long for the 1.0 version.  I mean, did they *try* any
	indexing before they released it?  As you know, it wont update an
	index at all--gotta remove the old and start anew.

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Douglas Scott
zardoz!doug%woof.columbia.edu