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Posted: Dec. 20 2006,22:12 QUOTE
Sorry, if this forum is not appropriate for this issue; found no better place.

I have a fresh installation of DSL3.1 on a 486/66. Everything went smoothly. I don't use X (yet) due to an exotic graphic card. So I'm working in textmode exclusively.

The problem: When I launch any man command, e. g. 'man ls', the command never returns and complains:

ls: /KNOPPIX//bin/ls: No such file or directory

Error: No data read

What did I do wrong?

Thanks for any hint.

Hans
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Posted: Dec. 21 2006,00:46 QUOTE
check to see if you are connected to the internet.

I just started using DSL on monday, but I think that it trys to get all man pages off the internet, so that might be the problem....
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Posted: Dec. 21 2006,09:34 QUOTE
I'm not. Thanks a lot!

Is there a way to setup a "local" system with no internet connectivity?
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Posted: Dec. 21 2006,14:19 QUOTE
Yes, it does use the internet to get the pages.

There's an extension for some offline man pages in mydsl.
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Posted: Dec. 21 2006,21:37 QUOTE
I'm going to go ahead and ask a question for him.

How would he get the Mydsl man onto his computer from a command line, and with no internet connection?
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