Thanks Someone on the MVS-OE mailing list made the following observations ( which I do not fully understand ) >>
When I've done this, I've NFS-shared the man1 and cat1 directories between z/OS and Solaris. I have a script that touches each page in the man1 directory, causing it to be formatted into the cat1 directory. Then it works on z/OS. Someone should oughta build nroff for z/os. Not for the faint hearted. Is it in Ported Tools? Even if it were, would "man" recognize it? -- gil -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Johnson Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 3:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: man pages do not seem to work on z/OS ?? On 2011-12-19, Bovy, Stephen wrote: > On Monday, December 19, 2011 12:48 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: >> On 2011-12-19, Bovy, Stephen wrote: >> > Help or suggestions are appreciated ?? >> >> First off, problems with man pages are off-topic for the vim_dev list >> unless you are having problems with only the Vim man pages. >> >> Secondly, "man pages do not seem to work on z/OS" does not tell me >> anything useful about the problem you're having. >> >> Try reading this: >> >> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > This is vim related ( I would not post a non-related question on the > vim list ) ( I am not that stupid ) > > But then again I am not a unix expert either ( so my inept questions > simply expose my ignorance ) > > But hey, I am asking for help (what's wrong with that) Nothing wrong with asking questions. The problem with your question had nothing to do with your lack of knowledge of Unix. The problem with your question was that you didn't provide enough information about the problem for anyone to be able to figure out what the cause might be. Would you take you car to a mechanic and simply tell him that it didn't work and not describe the problem or the symptoms? > Ok I did make install > > And I updated my manpath >> > > MANPATH=$MANPATH:$xsamp/man/%L:/usr/local/vim/share/man > export MANPATH That's an odd place to install man pages. The usual place for local man pages is /usr/local/man or /usr/local/share/man. That's just an observation, though, and doesn't seem to the be source of the problem. > When I type man vim I get the following >>> > > $ man vim > FSUMF061 Cannot format /usr/local/vim/share/man/man1/vim.1 > $ > > I also tried /man/%L > > Setting up a man path should not be that difficult right ??? Your MANPATH seems OK, since man is not complaining about not being able to find the requested man page. I don't know what causes the "Cannot format" error. It could be that the man macros used in vim.1 differ from those used by the z/OS man system. You might try running 'file' on that man page and on one that you know works and see if 'file' reports any differences. You could also try opening the vim.1 file and a working man file side-by-side in vim and see if you can spot any differences in structure or macro use. HTH, Gary -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
