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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>
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On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Steve Howe wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, David Nugent wrote:
> 
> > If it works ok for you, then either  (1) you're running without caching
> > manpages in the 'cat?' subdirectories or (2) permissions on those
> > directories allow anyone to write in there.
> 
> is there any way i can step thru the man process, entering each command
> 1-by-1, to make sure that works?  i can't run "ps" fast enough to catch
> all the things man does!

% script
Script started, output is typescript
% man cat
....
% exit
% more typescript

'script' is one of those wonderful commands which few people know about.

To see the processes running, turn on process accounting - 'man sa'

Sorry, for you I should say:

'gzcat /usr/share/man/man8/sa.8.gz | nroff -man | more'

:-)

Danny