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I had written (last night?):
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I am responsible for two NeXTs in our group, my cube and the secretary's
TurboStation.  Yesterday I upgraded both to 3.0 and the following peculiar
situation has arisen with respect to man pages, e.g., "man ls".

Actually, it arose before yesterday, when I discovered that I no longer
could find man pages entries already last week.  That is because, to
save disk space on our two machines, we NFS-mount the NextLibrary/-
Documentation directory on both machines from another NeXTstation down the
hall in T-8, another group.  I soon learned that T-8 had already upgraded
to 3.0 last week.  Since the man pages were moved around some between 2.x
and 3.0, it was no surprise the entries could not be found.  But I expected
this problem to go away when I did _our_ upgrades.

Not quite the case.  In fact, if I remember correctly, neither my machine
nor Rachel's could find the man pages entries as of yesterday afternoon,
after the upgrades were complete.

The mystery compounds: later that evening, when signed on to my machine
remotely (from home), I tried (without much hope) once again a "man ls".
To my surprise, it worked (and it still does)!

Oh ho!, I said, Paul (the T-8 system administrator) must have fixed 
something earlier this evening.  Good!, but maybe I'll just check that 
"man" also works on Rachel's machine?  That's where the real mystery
comes in -- it DOESN'T!

Anybody have any clues as to what's going here?  

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paul kim (pkim@cory.berkeley.edu) and (essentially the same) Magnus 
Nordborg <magnus@fisher.Stanford.EDU> responded with:

I believe you need the /usr/man directory linked to the
/NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages directory.  E.g.,

localhost> ln -s /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages /usr/man

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To which I say:

Yes!.  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?

Thank you, Paul and Magnus.

   Dick Silbar