mitchell@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU (09/03/86)
Has anyone implemented on-line manual pages (as in Berkeley Unix) on SYS V. It seems too easy, whats the catch?
gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) (09/03/86)
UNIX System V has had on-line manual pages. Recently, they have been unbundled so that you don't have to burn up lots of storage for them on small systems. We keep ours on-line.
bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) (09/03/86)
My SYSV system has on-line manuals right off the tape (3Bx/SYSVR2), maybe you better tell us exactly what machine/release is involved. At any rate, no, it's trivial as long as you have the manuals themselves on-line already. In fact, if you have the 4.2bsd 'man' command it will more or less just work (you may have to customize it a little in the header according to where you keep your manual entries.) In fact, the older systems just used a shell script, note that if you keep the formatted (nroff'd) versions on-line, it's not much more than # whatever program you use to paginate to the screen PAGER=pg # the base name for the formatted manual directory MANDIR=/usr/man/cat for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 l do if [ -f $MANDIR$i/$1.$i ] then $PAGER $MANDIR$i/$1.$i exit 0 fi done # if we found the page we would have exited, so must not have it echo Sorry, no manual page for $1 exit 1 Which you could obviously fancy-up with accepting multiple pages on one command and checking for an unformatted version and filtering it through nroff, etc etc. The keyword stuff (apropos or 'man -k') is a little hairier, you build an index and essentially grep that, no big deal tho. -Barry Shein, Boston University
larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) (09/04/86)
In article <3501@brl-smoke.ARPA>, cadovax!mitchell@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU (Mitchell Lerner) writes: > Has anyone implemented on-line manual pages (as in Berkeley Unix) on SYS V. > It seems too easy, whats the catch? We have online manual pages using man(1) on systems running UniSoft Uniplus+ and on the NCR Tower. Both of these System V ports do NOT pack or preformat the manual entries; man(1) calls nroff to do the job. There is no "catch" other than occupying a few MB of disk space. ==> Larry Lippman @ Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, New York ==> UUCP: {allegra|decvax|rocksanne|rocksvax|watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry ==> VOICE: 716/688-1231 {hplabs|ihnp4|seismo|utzoo}!/ ==> FAX: 716/741-9635 {G1,G2,G3} "Have you hugged your cat today?"
dpb@iwtpu.UUCP (Darryl Baker) (09/04/86)
In article <3501@brl-smoke.ARPA> mitchell@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU writes: > >Has anyone implemented on-line manual pages (as in Berkeley Unix) on SYS V. > >It seems too easy, whats the catch? The 'cat'able man pages are on the usr tape about file number 5 or 6. See the Administrators Guide for the exact position. The unformated pages are on a seperate tape. I'm not sure of the name but the people at (800) 828-UNIX should be able to tell you.