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Posted: Aug. 18 2005,21:58 QUOTE
I have an hd install. I noticed that the man pages are installed, but using the man command still tries to connect to the internet, and given the machine isn't on the network, fails miserably. Is there a way to have man actually use the local files?

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Posted: Aug. 19 2005,03:53 QUOTE
apt-get install man

the man in DSL is a tiny perl script.

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Posted: Aug. 19 2005,06:20 QUOTE
There is also the full man.uci, a very ram-friendly version for DSL,
in the 'testing' section of the repository, which would be good for
"offline" usage..

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Posted: Aug. 19 2005,13:37 QUOTE
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There is also the full man.uci, a very ram-friendly version for DSL,
in the 'testing' section of the repository, which would be good for
"offline" usage..

Didnt even realize... Once school starts this will be very handy to have. Thanks for bringing it to me attention.
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Posted: Aug. 22 2005,15:56 QUOTE
Quote (ke4nt1 @ Aug. 19 2005,02:20)
There is also the full man.uci, a very ram-friendly version for DSL,
in the 'testing' section of the repository, which would be good for
"offline" usage..

73
ke4nt

I was finally able to grab a copy of man.uci and copy it on to the machine in question. It works. Thanks!

I had to replace the man in /usr/local/bin with a link to /opt/man/bin. I would have thought that the mydsl-load would have done that for me. Did I do something wrong?

David
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