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Subject:    Re: Did regular man pages disappear with AIX v4.3.2?
From:       Todd Gurry <Todd.Gurry.B () BAYER ! COM>
Date:       1999-03-31 16:45:58
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Follow these steps to install the old fashion command line / character based
man pages on AIX 4.3.2. Should take up almost 100MB in the /usr filesystem
(/usr/share/man).

1. Create the following file named:
/usr/sys/inst.data/user_bundles/MAN-PAGES.bnd

# Bundle Name:       MAN-PAGES
# Description:       Old fashion command line man pages
#
bos.html.en_US.nav
bos.html.en_US.cmds.cmds1
bos.html.en_US.cmds.cmds2
bos.html.en_US.cmds.cmds3
bos.html.en_US.cmds.cmds4
bos.html.en_US.cmds.cmds5
bos.html.en_US.cmds.cmds6
bos.html.en_US.tec.base
bos.html.en_US.tec.commo

2. Insert the CD labeled:
"AIX V4.3.2 Base Documentation (5765-C34)"

3. Install the bundle:
# smit installp
Select Install Software Bundle
Select /dev/cd0 as the INPUT device
Select the MAN-PAGES bundle fileset
Accept the defaults






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Subject: Did regular man pages disappear with  AIX v4.3.2?

I've just upgraded (via complete re-install <g>) one of our AIX 3.2.5
servers to 4.3.2.  My first install of this version.

I can't find the regular man pages anyplace.  Sure, there's "Base
Documentation" and "Extended Documentation" CDroms, but at first glance it
seems that all that's there are html files.  And I don't plan to run a
web-anything on this machine.  And I'd rather not use ibm's web site.

My poking around has not turned up "bos.man.rte" (or any thing that looks
like *man* ) on any of the CD's, apart from the apparent html stuff.

Our users still find "man -k" (and man pages in general) quite useful.  I
don't relish trying to explain that it's gone away.  (Why does it feel like
we sysadmins get held responsible when the OS vendor "improves" the
operating system in a way that the users don't appreciate? <g> )

Uh ... have the old-style man pages gone away with 4.3.2?  Or do I have to
figure out how to configure this Domino server?

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