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Message from Steven
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Chris wrote:
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> However, 'netdate time.nist.gov' times out.  

Have you tried netdate with a different time server?

> I don't seem to be getting any man pages 

Perhaps they went into a subdirectory of /usr/man/ 

> is there something I need to tweak?  

BL3 does not read standard manpages, which are formatted
on-the-fly by groff.  Adding groff to BL3 would require 
several megabytes.

The manpages in BL3 (see /usr/man) have been pre-formatted
so they do not need groff.

> Looks like they're getting installed but man (part of 
> busybox?) doesn't find them.

The BL3 man is just a wee script that uses zless to 
display the pre-formatted man pages.  If you want a 
real man, you'll need to install it from Slackware.
 
> I can live with the nist.pl 

I still can't get nist.pl here.  Perhaps it's only
available to people in Europe?

> but the lappy coming up in 1990 was getting annoying :)

Have you succeeded in changing that?  If not, it is easy
to insert a more recent date at system start-up.

Cheers,
Steven