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Article #2835How to get local man pages show up like NeXT's in DL?
From: J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 02:01
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 02:01
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I've installed a number of man pages for local applications in /usr/local/man (that's the root of the local manpage tree, that is) and built a 'whatis' file there describing the manpages found there. I wanted to use Digital Librarian to search through them, and I can get it to build the index (3.0 DL builds the index whereas 'ixbuild' doesn't due to a bus error) but the titles come out like: man1/blah.1 man8/sample.8 instead of with the descriptions built in the whatis file like the NeXT manpages do: blah - prints "blah" to the screen sample - prints "sample" somewhere else All I'm doing to get these two examples above is clicking on the local man page or ManPages (NeXT-supplied) icon and then clicking on "List Titles" (first and second example, respectively). I thought it might have something to do with the dot files in /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages so I linked all of them to my local man page location and rebuilt the index from scratch. Still, the listing comes up as "man1/blah.1" lines instead of "blah - does something wonderful". What should I do to make my local man pages listing show up all pretty and nice in DL like NeXT's man page listing does? Thanks. -- -- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu) -- NeXTmail ok
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) Subject: How to get local man pages show up like NeXT's in DL? Message-ID: <Bvu0AF.6FA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 02:01:25 GMT Lines: 33