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Article #1212Re: man for AIX?
From: Mark Ryan Miller
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:17
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:17
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Well, I've just ported a version of man onto AIX. It was fairly simple. I had to play around with some includes. The source was from a pd unix archive. If you like I can find out exactly where I got it. As for the pages themselves, if you can't get the nroff format, the program seems able to handle simple text if it's already formatted. And maybe there are some pd man pages :> As for the question of support, I figure this newsgroup helps a lot. Maybe if we worked on a faq, or had some kind of newsletter? It's an interesting question about software. What happens when you have a system that is no longer supported. I think some people are more loose with source code, etc, since the company CAN'T sell them the programs they need, so they're not exactly losing any money. But, there are a lot of PD programs out there that will work. I've got man, gnu tar, working in the last few days. I'm trying to get xlisp and logo working. Would anyone care to share their experience in porting software? I've got AIX 2.2.1 with X Windows, and the standard C compiler, but want to add lisp, and maybe something like LaTeX if I can find it. Is there anyone here who has ported most of the software on their system? --Mark
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!zitsky From: zitsky+@cs.cmu.edu (Mark Ryan Miller) Subject: Re: man for AIX? Message-ID: <C01F19.IGw.2@cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: nairobi.mt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon References: <1ho775INNpjp@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> <59@antimatr.hou.tx.us> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:17:32 GMT Lines: 28