Date: 06 Feb 2002 09:48:36 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu Subject: Re: no man pags?! Message-ID: <44wuxqy8cb.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <200202061443.JAA02624@uce55.uchaswv.edu> References: <F243jIL2jpWkfb81Ifp00001305@hotmail.com> <200202061443.JAA02624@uce55.uchaswv.edu>
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Please don't top-post. It makes following a discussion more difficult. Nathan Mace <mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> writes: > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 02:48 am, you wrote: > > I didn't catch the first message in this thread, so forgive any really dumb > > comments from me, but installing the man pages is optional. If you think > > they may not have been installed, you can remedy the situation with > > /stand/sysinstall. > > yes but i was running 4.5-RC, an man pages worked fine. when i upgraded to > 4.5 stable my man pages quit working. will upgraded to the latest stable fix > it? or not? Depends on exactly what's wrong, which we still don't really know. If you're really missing the man pages, it would certainly help. That's unlikely, though, since *something* would have had to delete them, and the upgrade process doesn't delete anything on its own. If you can have the manual source files (check 'ls /usr/share/man/man1/vi.*', then it's not the case. Check $MANPATH... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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