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Article #35Anyone have an unformatted man page for AVS?
From: Douglas N Arnold
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 07:37
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 07:37
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The lack of the unformatted source for the avs man page is a real annoyance. Has anyone decompiled the formatted page supplied with the AVS distribution to create one? In case you're wondering why this is bothering me here are the details. First, we don't keep the /usr/local/man/cat1 directory around at all, since it consumes disk space and the formatting time is so short, that there is little to be gained by keeping preformatted pages about. Second, without the unformatted page in /usr/local/man/man1/avs.1, avs doesn't get entered into the whatis database. Of course we could add it there by hand, but then everytime anyone adds a new piece of software and regenerates the whatis database (a very frequent occurence) they need to remember to add this line by hand. Not very convenient. Of the 430 or so executables we've installed in our /usr/local, avs is the only one to supply a formatted man page only. If you have an unformatted man page, please send it to me by email. Thanks. -- Douglas N. Arnold dna@math.psu.edu Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State Univ. (814) 865-0246
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.avs Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!uxa.ecn.bgu.edu!psuvax1!news From: dna@math.psu.edu (Douglas N Arnold) Subject: Anyone have an unformatted man page for AVS? Message-ID: <BsJx6t.1sx@cs.psu.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: fredholm.math.psu.edu Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 07:37:40 GMT Lines: 22