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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] man problem
  • Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 15:14:37 +0200

On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 07:45:57PM +0800, Craig Dyke wrote:
> I seem to be having a problem with man of some items.
>
> The following output is the general error:
>
> spellcaster:~# man cp
> man: No such file or directory
> Failed to open the message catalog man on the path NLSPATH=<none>
>
> No manual entry for cp
>
> Now I have found that I have a man.1 and a man.1p
>
> If I type man 1p cp then I get information I am looking for.
> Can someone tell me how I get the man.Xp (X any number) included
> in search path?
>
> Curious as to why this isn't done by spell when it appears that spell
> creates
> the 'p' extension man pages.

Those are two different manpages, cp.1 is installed by coreutils, cp.1p
is a manpage for posix cp, installed by man-pages. man should find both
normally, it does here. Check if all your man paths are in
/usr/share/misc/man.conf.

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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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