Linking to make man pages work (was: Re: oddity with man pages in 3.0 -- RESOLVED)

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From: J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 00:50

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Dick Silbar (among others) writes
> In fact, for some reason, the secretary's machine had no /usr/man file
> at all (but mine did, and it was already linked).
> 
> Question: why didn't the upgrade package make this link for me?

I don't know why, but I would think it was either operator error or an  
Update3.0 app bug because in building the whole OS from scratch (installing  
everything from the CD-ROM from nothing), I had no problems with this (i.e.,  
the upgrade did it for me).

Just another log in the fire....
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
-- NeXTmail ok

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Subject: Linking to make man pages work (was: Re: oddity with man pages in 3.0 -- RESOLVED)
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