lindahl@arrisun3.utarl.edu (Charlie S. Lindahl) (04/27/91)
All: Sorry if this has been answered before; it is NOT in the latest X FAQ, and I am going crazy trying to figure it out (this paragraph is to indicate that I'm not asking a "how do I start this" type of question). So, for the netters out there: how do I get the X man pages to be recognized on the SUN via the "man" command? Here's what I've done: 1) Did make install.man (to install things in /usr/man). 2) Executed the expand.names shell script to make the names in /usr/man/man3 expand to full size (this is also undocumented, as far as I can tell. The results of the make install.man make shortened names in the man pages (so XtDestroyWidget, for example, is XtDestWid, or somesuch, presumably for AT&T filename length restrictions, I assume. The expand.names shells makes nice long names in /usr/man which map to the actual routine names). 3) Used XMAN, which certainly DOES work (I haven't figured out where, or if, it actually invokes the man command or does the troff directly). What I want to do is to be able to use MAN from the SUN XTERM window and get a result (actually, to be accurate, I use the "manual.el" macro in EMACS to display my man pages, and that is broken too). An example: assume a man page in /usr/man/man3/AllPlanes.3X11 (this is how make install.man created it). I tried: %man AllPlanes [got: "No manual entry for AllPlanes"] %man 3 AllPlanes [ditto] %man 3X11 AllPlanes [ditto] What am I doing wrong? Please EMAIL me directly, as I don't usually keep up with this newsgroup. I will summarize responses, natch. Note: I'm running SUN OS 4.1.1 on a Sparc, if that helps. Our VAX running ULTRIX works as I'd expect (man AllPlanes works both in the shell and in EMACS). Thanx -- Charlie S. Lindahl Automation and Robotics Research Institute University of Texas at Arlington Internet EMAIL: lindahl@cse.arl.utexas.edu Standard disclaimer: Ain't no opinion but my own.