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Matrix Mole wrote:
>
> Following Stevens response to a question I had concerning 
> background tasks I executed "man bash" on my Linux machine, 
> and received the error "No entry in the manual for bash 
> found." 

The ramdisk version of does not have manpages.  It has bash
but not the bash manpage.  The HD installation routine installs
several packages (which include the manpages for those packages) 
from Slackware.  But the bash package is not one of them.  Bash 
is simply copied from the ramdisk to the HD.

> should I install the Bash package by itself so as to get access 
> to the man pages?

Yes, that will give you the bash manpage.  It will also give 
you bash 2.04.  The bash installed by BL2 is version 1.14 
(which is smaller and is perhaps faster on old hardware).  
If you want to keep bash 1.14, you will find the manpages 
for that one in /slakware/a1/bash1.tgz.

Cheers,
Steven