[comp.unix.aix] looking for dosformat and catman for AIX 1.2

AER7101%TECHNION@TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL (Zvika Bar-Deroma) (05/17/91)

Hi,
Two AIX 3.1 commands which I need for AIX/PS2 (1.2) are:

  1. dosformat  (seems to me that it's a must on PS/2 platform)
                I know that I can use DOSmerge, but why open a DOSmerge
                virtual terminal, if all I want is format a DOS diskette
                (and after that I'll doswrite on it).

  2. catman (particularly the -w option for the creation of whatis db.

IBM/Locus - any solutions/suggestions ?

/Zvika


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jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II) (05/18/91)

In article <910517.135049.IST.AER7101@TECHNION> AER7101%TECHNION@TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL (Zvika Bar-Deroma) writes:
>  2. catman (particularly the -w option for the creation of whatis db.
>
>IBM/Locus - any solutions/suggestions ?

I've checked my PS/2 and it has the /etc/catman command and the -w
option goes along with it just fine.  Is something not working
correctly?
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AER7101@TECHNION.BITNET (Zvika Bar-Deroma) (05/20/91)

In article <7719@awdprime.UUCP>, jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II)
says:
>
>In article <910517.135049.IST.AER7101@TECHNION>
>AER7101%TECHNION@TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL (Zvika Bar-Deroma) writes:
>>  2. catman (particularly the -w option for the creation of whatis db.
>>
>>IBM/Locus - any solutions/suggestions ?
>
>I've checked my PS/2 and it has the /etc/catman command and the -w
>option goes along with it just fine.  Is something not working
>correctly?

Yes - I RTFM (AIX/PS2 commands ref., SC23-2025) and it wasn't there,
whereas the "parallel AIX 3 manual does show it. It may be due to the
fact that the manual is not the 1.2 one; the online manual pages does
have an entry for catman.


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That problem's settled, let's move on to the next one..
/Zvika