Re: man missing ?
David Wright wrote:
> 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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Thanks, but I got the modem going. Win95/PnP Bios set the modem to COM3, IRQ5 (how's
that for a non-standard IRQ setting?). So I used setserial to set /dev/ttyS2 to irq 5
and the modem fired right up. Now all I have to do is figure out what file to edit to
do this on boot-up.
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