Re: man missing ?

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting Kent West (kent.west@infotech.acu.edu):
> <snip>
> Continuing on would have
> gotten me the man reader, but alas, my modem wouldn't work, so I couldn't
> download any further packages. I can zcat the doc files, but because
> there's garbage in the output of that (ctrl characters, etc), it's not easy
> to read. As a result I've been rebooting into Win95, connecting to the web,
> doing research, rebooting into Linux, making config changes, failing,
> rebooting into Win95, etc etc.

I don't know why you're having trouble with your modem on linux, but I
would recommend you connect to the internet with W95, ftp the man-db
package from a Debian site (remember to set binary) and install it
with dpkg -i filename in linux. Problem solved.

Grab what you can at the same time: if you get dependency problems, just
go back to ftp. (Or one can just pick over the packages file by eye.
That's the wonderful thing about having it all driven by simple text
files, not complicated databases.)

Cheers,

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