kek@DINORAH.WUSTL.EDU (Ken Krippner) (12/01/88)
It seems that the make install does a fine job of putting things in their expected places. It seems however that it was decided to change the style of man page filenames between R2 and R3. R2, files were named, for instance, XDrArc.3X while for R3 the name XDrArc.3X11 is used. Also, the Xt man pages are named XtAddCbk.3Xt At least on ULTRIX 2.3, these man pages are not found. My experience is that they must have only two character extensions beyond the dot. Of course we were running R2 previously so that both the *.3X and the *.3X11 files were present, and man has an easy time of giving us a page (albeit out-of-date) unless it is a new function. The cat3/... added even more fun to the game of which man pages worked and which didn't. Anyway, has anyone else seen this? and did you simply rename all of them as 3X? or is their a sweeter solution? TIA, ken.
becker@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU (Tim Becker) (12/01/88)
It seems however that it was decided to change the style of man page
filenames between R2 and R3. R2, files were named, for instance,
XDrArc.3X while for R3 the name XDrArc.3X11 is used. Also, the
Xt man pages are named XtAddCbk.3Xt
At least on ULTRIX 2.3, these man pages are not found. My experience
is that they must have only two character extensions beyond the dot.
Anyway, has anyone else seen this?
and did you simply rename all of them as 3X?
or is their a sweeter solution?
I had the same problem on my SunOS3.4 machine. I renamed them to *.3.
Tim Becker.
becker@cs.rochester.edutom@ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett) (12/02/88)
> It seems however that it was decided to change the style of man page > filenames between R2 and R3. R2, files were named, for instance, > XDrArc.3X while for R3 the name XDrArc.3X11 is used. Also, the > Xt man pages are named XtAddCbk.3Xt > > At least on ULTRIX 2.3, these man pages are not found. My experience > is that they must have only two character extensions beyond the dot. I ran into the same problem on our Suns running SunOS 3.5. After some experimentation, I discovered that "man" is very picky about what suffixes it will find, and the permissible possiblilities vary from section to section of the manual. For example, in sections "local" and "public" (manl and manp), the only suffixes man seems to find are ".l" and ".p", respectively. Suffixes like ".3" or ".pX" or ".3X11" just plain don't work in manl and manp. In our case, we wanted to keep all of the X man pages in "manp" to segregate them from everything else. It makes maintenance easier, and reduces confusion and potential name conflicts. I also tried creating a /usr/man/manX, but "man" refused to look in there either. So it would appear that the "install.man" entries in the doc/Xlib/Xman and doc/Xt/Xtman Imakefiles should be using "LibManSuffix" as the suffix for the installed man pages. The "expand.names" files would need to be modified accordingly, preferably by some automated procedure. VERY minor gripe: The "expand.names" scripts should be run automatically if "ExpandManNames" is set in the appropriate *.macros or site.def files. It looks like the hooks are all there, but just didn't get carried all the way through. Tom Crockett -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering M.S. 132C, NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA 23665 e-mail: tom@icase.edu phone: (804) 865-4097 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------