gbell@genesis.csc.wsu.edu (Greg Bell - Systems) (03/13/91)
I have a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix 4.1. I recently ported ispell to it, which wants to put the man pages in /usr/man/manl. Doing a `man man' seems to suggest that `man local ispell' should work, which it does if I use the System V man (/usr/bin/man), but I get a Segmentation fault with /usr/ucb/man. Typing only `man ispell' indicates that there is no man page for ispell. Am I doing anything wrong, or is the Berkeley man broken? Greg Bell
iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) (03/13/91)
In article <1991Mar12.190455.18062@eecs.wsu.edu> gbell@genesis.csc.wsu.edu (Greg Bell - Systems) writes: >I have a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix 4.1. I recently ported ispell >to it, which wants to put the man pages in /usr/man/manl. Doing a `man >man' seems to suggest that `man local ispell' should work, which it >does if I use the System V man (/usr/bin/man), but I get a >Segmentation fault with /usr/ucb/man. Typing only `man ispell' >indicates that there is no man page for ispell. Am I doing anything >wrong, or is the Berkeley man broken? Use catman to rebuild the whatis database. See the man page for catman for details. Mike Iglesias University of California, Irvine Internet: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu BITNET: iglesias@uci uucp: ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias
gbell@genesiscsc.wsu.edu (Greg Bell - Systems) (03/13/91)
I understand that my first posting got garbled because I did not stay within 80 character lines. I have a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix 4.1. I recently ported ispell to it, which wants to put the man pages in /usr/man/manl. Doing a `man man' seems to suggest that `man local ispell' should work, which it does if I use the System V man (/usr/bin/man), but I get a Segmentation fault with /usr/ucb/man. Typing only `man ispell' indicates that there is no man page for ispell. Am I doing something wrong, or is the Berkeley man broken? Greg Bell
rwood@pa.dec.com (Richard Wood) (03/13/91)
> In article <1991Mar12.190455.18062@eecs.wsu.edu> gbell@genesis.csc.wsu.edu (Greg Bell - Systems) writes: > I have a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix 4.1. I recently ported ispell > to it, which wants to put the man pages in /usr/man/manl. Doing a `man > man' seems to suggest that `man local ispell' should work, which it > does if I use the System V man (/usr/bin/man), but I get a > Segmentation fault with /usr/ucb/man. Typing only `man ispell' > indicates that there is no man page for ispell. Am I doing anything > wrong, or is the Berkeley man broken? Make sure the suffix on the file in /usr/man/manl is ".l". I.e., if the file is /usr/man/manl/ispell.l Then "man ispell" should find it. Apropos and "man -k" won't find it unless you rebuild the whatis database with catman, but this shouldn't affect "man" itself. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Wood Corporate Worksystems Team Digital Equipment Corp. ========================================================================
jwe@che.utexas.edu (John W. Eaton) (03/13/91)
In article <1991Mar12.230038.2676@eecs.wsu.edu> gbell@genesiscsc.wsu.edu (Greg Bell - Systems) writes: > Doing a `man man' seems to suggest that `man local ispell' should > work, which it does if I use the System V man (/usr/bin/man), but I > get a Segmentation fault with /usr/ucb/man. I found the version of man that was distributed with Ultrix 3.x to be somewhat less than wonderful and I couldn't find anything much better so I wrote my own. It understands MANPATH and PAGER environment variables and knows a few tricks that the standard Ultrix man doesn't. You can retrieve a copy via anonymous ftp from andy.che.utexas.edu (128.83.162.5) in the directory pub. There is also a very complete implementation of man in perl by Tom Christiansen. It is available from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (128.146.8.60) in the directory pub/perl/scripts/tchrist. -- John W. Eaton jwe@che.utexas.edu Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin