From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 7:48:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA5837B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 07:48:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4222C93B9 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:48:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA31095 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:50:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 10:50:13 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Good To: FBSD Questions Subject: Man Page Mystery In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi...this is a very dumb question but I am at a loss. man $whatver returns: No manual entry for $whatever Obviously the man pages are sitting in /usr/share/man* And equally obviously they are gzipped. I can tap on them in midc and read them. How do I get man to read them? Am I missing some arcane arg? Can't find any reference to this in the Handbook or Greg's book. Thanks much, Tom -------------------------------------------------------------------- SVCMC - Center for Behavioral Health -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Good tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org IS Coordinator / DBA Phone: 718-354-5528 Fax: 718-354-5056 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Powered by: PostgreSQL s l a c k w a r e FreeBSD: RDBMS |---------- linux The Power To Serve -------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message