Re: common commands not working

1997-08-12 Thread Marc Brooks
At 03:54 PM 8/12/97 -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: >I believe the man pages are part of the standard installation. I had a problem with the configuration file having a strange bit added to the end of it. I simply renamed it, removing the text, and man worked from then on. The text was something ab

Re: common commands not working

1997-08-12 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Tim Stevens wrote: > As a new debian user I was suprised @ how easy the installation of 1.3 went... > not a hitch. However, when I issue the man command to explore the manual pages > I get a bad command message. same for apropos. Is this related to the > Packages and > the dse

Re: common commands not working

1997-08-12 Thread Vern Hamberg
At 02:53 PM 8/12/97 -0400, you wrote: >As a new debian user I was suprised @ how easy the installation of 1.3 went... >not a hitch. However, when I issue the man command to explore the manual pages >I get a bad command message. same for apropos. Is this related to the >Packages and >the dselect uti

common commands not working

1997-08-12 Thread Tim Stevens
As a new debian user I was suprised @ how easy the installation of 1.3 went... not a hitch. However, when I issue the man command to explore the manual pages I get a bad command message. same for apropos. Is this related to the Packages and the dselect utility.Please point me in the right direc