On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:06:44 -0700 Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote:
> > William Pursell stated:
> > < After installing nv_72 I can't find the manual page for ksh93:
> > < # which ksh93
> > < /usr/bin/ksh93
> > < # man ksh93
> > < No manual entry for ksh93.
> > <
> > < Is the manual page in a different package or just missing?
> >
> > Its in a different path:
> >
> > $ man -M /usr/dt/man ksh93
> That's not the man page you're looking for - that's the ancient
> ksh93 underlying dtksh.
you can always get the most-up-to-date and guaranteed-to-match-the-exectuable
albeit-less-detailed-than-man documentation via
ksh --man
ksh --html 2>&1 | lynx -stdin # or you favorite command line browser
and likewise for most ksh builtins and plugins listed by ``builtin'', e.g.,
wait --man
wait --html 2>&1 | lynx -stdin # or you favorite command line browser
the anomalies (probably won't ever self document) are:
: [ echo login newgrp
this is a special case
test --man --
test --html -- 2>&1 | lynx -stdin
and these we haven't (yet) done the self-documentation for (they slipped through
our > decade old dragnet):
alarm false true vmap vpath
btw, you can get the specific option descriptions by
ksh --?x
which does a case insensitive prefix match on all short and long options that
start with x
-- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --
