[9822] in Athena Bugs
Re: man pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lwvanels@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 24 08:00:34 1992
From: lwvanels@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 08:00:25 -0400
To: darford@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [9819]
Reply-To: lwvanels@MIT.EDU
The RS/6000 does not have man pages, per se, but instead has a hypertext
database including all the information normally found in man pages, as well
as quite a bit of other information on the system. The "man" command on
this system tries to emulate the functionality of "man" that you'd find
on other platforms, but it is not always perfect. To get the best results,
you should use the native interface to this database, "info". You can
either search on the string "strcmp", or you can bring up a set of menus
similar to xman by clicking on "List of Books" and then selecting "Calls and
Subroutines Reference: Base Operating System".
-Lucien
