Re: [newbie] Silly question - I don't know how to use man

2000-06-30 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello Thanks all for the suggestions regarding getting man to work. Here is what I tried: a) Re-installation of man softaware - It didn't work. b) Copy of somebody else's man.config to /etc/man.config. - It didn work. c) Use man as man -M /usr/man - it worked. The funniest thing about it is

Re: [newbie] Silly question - I don't know how to use man

2000-06-29 Thread Mark Weaver
Ed, At the time I first asnwered your message I was sitting at my Workstation at work. I hate to admit it, but it's not a Linux workstation. At this momemt I'm sitting at my PC at home. So, I pop open a terminal window and type in the command man procmail and guess what pops up? Yes, you

RE: [newbie] Silly question - I don't know how to use man

2000-06-29 Thread Larry Marshall
I did that several times but it always ended up on root@armagedon:/usr/lib$ man procmail No manual entry for procmail Any suggestions? As I recall, your msg indicated that your man pages were in zip format. Maybe you'd have better luck if you use gunzip on them. Cheers ---

Re: [newbie] Silly question - I don't know how to use man

2000-06-29 Thread Mark Weaver
Have you tried re-installing the man RPM onto your system yet? that might be an option. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 1299563 On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, mendes wrote: Hello Unfortunately man procmail won't

Re: [newbie] Silly question - I don't know how to use man

2000-06-29 Thread Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine Engineering
Below is the contents of my /etc/man.config file Not on my system this file is "man.config" not ".man.config". mendes wrote: Hello Unfortunately man procmail won't work. I have just found out that man can't find a thing. The /etc/.man.config is empty. Could someone tell me what

Re: [newbie] Silly question - I don't know how to use man

2000-06-28 Thread Mark Weaver
mendes wrote: Hello I know that this is a rather silly question but I definitely need help. For instance, I installed procmail on my system. The manuals were placed at /usr/man/man1 and /usr/man/man5 as *.1.gz or *1.bz2 and *.5.gz or *.5.bz2. When I type man procmail the sys

Re: [newbie] Silly question - I don't know how to use man

2000-06-28 Thread Joe St.Clair - KSI Machine Engineering
Just type "man procmail". mendes wrote: Hello I know that this is a rather silly question but I definitely need help. For instance, I installed procmail on my system. The manuals were placed at /usr/man/man1 and /usr/man/man5 as *.1.gz or *1.bz2 and *.5.gz or *.5.bz2. When I