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From: aledm@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk (Aled Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: hp-ux online manuals
Summary: oops...got my upgrade screwed up
Keywords: hp-ux manual discrepencies flame
Message-ID: <484@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Jun 88 19:30:31 GMT
References: <474@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk>
Organization: School of Cognitive Sciences, Univ of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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In article <474@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk>, aledm@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk (me) writes:
> Why don't the online manuals for HP-UX bear any similarity to the
> pre-printed versions?
[flame flame...]

Bob Jewett at HP labs has pointed out that manual pages in release 6 of
HP-UX come compressed, in directories /usr/man/man*.Z and on investigation,
I discovered that the old release 5 manuals were not deleted during the
upgrade (could this be a fault in the upgrade scripts??!).  Of course, the
man command looks first in /usr/man/man* before the .Z directories, so
it was picking up on the old versions.

I can see the point in compressed manual sources, but why have compressed
cat* directories?  I thought that the whole point of cat* was to speed
up manual page reading.  And on the subject of speed, why is there a two
second delay after *quitting* more??!  Crazy system....

Aled Morris

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