On 09.12.12 05:31, John Thornton wrote:
> Yea, there is nothing intuitive about man pages... either you know the 
> magic names or your lost.

Probably the easiest way to make that connection for the user is to add a
one-line manpage for each of loadrt, addf, setp, net, etc, along the
lines of ".so filename", as described in ""man zsoelim".

I don't have LinuxCNC manpages on this host, but can demonstrate with
another manpage and a fictitious new one, "fred". The manpage file for
gawk is:

$ man -w gawk
/usr/share/man/man1/gawk.1.gz

so to redirect the new one to it:

# echo .so man1/gawk.1.gz > /usr/share/man/man1/fred.1

Now:

$ man fred

throws up the gawk manpage. I'm fast catching up with Gene apropos
forgettery skills, so might just whack them in on the other host.
(So long as I remember to do that.)

And, yes, I have the "mandb" manpage database gumpf here¹ too:

$ file /var/cache/man/index.db
/var/cache/man/index.db: GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian

But man is clever enough to snuffle about if what you ask for isn't in
there.

Erik

¹ $ more /etc/issue
  Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS \n \l

-- 
The Kyoto Protocol, drafted in 1997, aimed to reduce the world's greenhouse gas 
emissions by around five per cent from 1990 levels by the end of 2012.        
Instead, global greenhouse gases have risen around 58 per cent in that time.  
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-08/troubled-un-climate-talks-spill-over/4416696


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