Re: OMVS Whatis ?

2020-10-08 Thread Chris Hoelscher
Heck - even my laptop has an . n-r-off switch 

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On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 06:25:43 -0500, Lionel B Dyck wrote:
>...
>Thus when adding utilities (e.g. Rocket ported, Co:Z, ...) that have 
>man pages, the MANPATH can be updated so that these tools man pages can 
>be found if requested specifically but they cannot be found using the 'man -k 
>xxx'
>command.
>
Further, some FOSS man pages are supplied in nroff format and formatted and 
cached on demand, and OMVS has no nroff.  I've relied on accessing each such 
man page on a system supporting nroff with the formatted man directories NFS 
shared back to z/OS.

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Re: OMVS Whatis ?

2020-10-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 06:25:43 -0500, Lionel B Dyck wrote:
>...
>Thus when adding utilities (e.g. Rocket ported, Co:Z, ...) that have man
>pages, the MANPATH can be updated so that these tools man pages can be found
>if requested specifically but they cannot be found using the 'man -k xxx'
>command.
> 
Further, some FOSS man pages are supplied in nroff format and formatted
and cached on demand, and OMVS has no nroff.  I've relied on accessing
each such man page on a system supporting nroff with the formatted man
directories NFS shared back to z/OS.

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OMVS Whatis ?

2020-10-08 Thread Lionel B Dyck
Has anyone ported whatis and makewhatis to OMVS?

Or is there a better way than using whatis?

My issue is that the ‘man -k xxx’ searches the /usr/man/%L/whatis database
and there is no available means to update that file since whatis and
makewhatis are not available.

Thus when adding utilities (e.g. Rocket ported, Co:Z, ...) that have man
pages, the MANPATH can be updated so that these tools man pages can be found
if requested specifically but they cannot be found using the 'man -k xxx'
command.

Thoughts?  Am I off base?  Am I missing something?

Lionel B. Dyck <
Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com

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