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From: rml@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lenk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: hp-ux online manuals
Message-ID: <5570048@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 31 May 88 21:31:43 GMT
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> Why don't the online manuals for HP-UX bear any similarity to the
> pre-printed versions?  O.K., thats a bit of an exaggeration, but I
> just read "man nlist", and it goes on about "nlist is implemented on
> the series 200 and integral PC only".  The printed manual doesn't
> say this at all (and I've got "nlist" on my series 300---I trust the
> pre-printed opinion).

The online and printed manuals for any release come from the same
source, and should be identical (other than nroff vs. troff differences).

On my 6.0 system, the online nlist(3c) page has a header line saying
"Series 300, 800 only".  My printed 5.2 manual set says "Series 200,
300, 800 only".  Thus it seems that the page you have is from an earlier
release which pre-dates the series 800.  My guess that it still exists
on your machine due to some problem in updating.  I'd suggest looking
in the directories /usr/man/man3, /usr/man/man3.Z, /usr/man/cat3, and
/usr/man/cat3.Z to see what version(s) of the nlist page (and other
pages) may still be around.  The pages in the release should be in
/usr/man/man3.Z, and are probably dated something like Dec. 1, 1987,
but older pages elsewhere may override them.

		Bob Lenk
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