millercb@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Clifford B Miller) (10/27/90)
Browsing through the [3.2] file system, one comes across /usr/NeWS/bin/*, most of which is SGI binary, and most of which has no man pages or in fact any reference/explanation in the manuals. Most appear to be image tools of some sort. ARE there man pages? Can these things be used? Their names suggest that they'd useful/interesting tools. While I'm on the subject, there's also some undocumented stuff in /usr/lib/print, which I'm also interested in. Please e-mail to cliff@research.nec.com and/or post here (I find there are many more questions on this group than answers -- seems it would be useful to see ALL the answers here too). Thanks. Cliff Miller Clifford B. Miller, Research Associate / Systems Administrator NEC Research Institute, 4 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540 Internet: cliff@research.nec.com phone: (609) 951-2688 UUCP: ...princeton!necserve!cliff
blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS361 x42854") (10/29/90)
We have 3.3.1 on our systems and /usr/NeWS/bin is a symbolic link to /usr/sbin. Like you said some have man pages and some do not. I know this doesn't help much, but it is one more piece to the puzzle. -- Brent L. Bates NASA-Langley Research Center M.S. 361 Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225 (804) 864-2854 E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov
msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) (10/31/90)
In article <3620@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, millercb@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Clifford B Miller) writes: |> Browsing through the [3.2] file system, one comes across |> /usr/NeWS/bin/*, most of which is SGI binary, and most of which has no |> man pages or in fact any reference/explanation in the manuals. Most /usr/NeWS/bin is a symbolic link to /usr/sbin. The majority of commands in /usr/sbin do have man pages. If you installed 4Dgifts binaries when you installed or upgraded your system, then all of the 4Dgifts image processing commands appear in /usr/sbin. These do not have man pages. There is a README file in ~4Dgifts/iristools/imgtools that describes them all. |> |> While I'm on the subject, there's also some undocumented stuff in |> /usr/lib/print, which I'm also interested in. This stuff has to do with the lp subsystem. I think most of them are filters for various printers. These programs are typically invoked by lp not by the user. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc "There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play. It strongly defines its content."