[14883] in Athena Bugs
sgi 8.0I: framemaker manual pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Chuang)
Fri Dec 13 00:01:20 1996
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 00:01:15 EST
From: "William Chuang" <wchuang@MIT.EDU>
System name: mr-toad
Type and version: IP22 8.0I
Display type: GR3-XZ
What were you trying to do?
Get man page information on FrameMaker
What's wrong:
The windex file in /mit/frame/man is out of date
and contains entries only for la2mml and prog2mif
(there is a manual page for maker in /mit/frame/man
but it's not listed in the windex file).
This means that on a Sun workstation, if a user
types:
athena% add frame
athena% man maker
they'll get a message saying that no manual page
exists for "maker".
However, if the user uses:
athena% man -F maker
which forces the Solaris "man" program to ignore
the windex file contents and grunge through the
directories in MANPATH, they _will_ get the manual
page.
What should have happened:
I should have gotten the manual page for FrameMaker.
windex files aren't too hard to generate (neither are
whatis files for the other platforms).
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
"man man" on a Solaris machine.
