From: marke@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com (Mark W. Easter)
Subject: Re: Where are the #*&^$( MAN pages?
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:20:20 GMT
Organization: FlightSafety-SSD, Tulsa, OK, USA

In article <01050810.buvbad@mbeckman.mbeckman.com> mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman) writes:

>   OK. I'll bite.  Where are the man pages?  I did not load the entire InfoExploder
>   lib onto my 400MB 220W, and don't usually have the CD mounted. When I request
>   a man page, I get the message "man pages not found" or something similar.
>   If the Info CD is mounted, I get about a TWO MINUTE delay while it performs
>   some horrid inverted markov linear search, and then the plain old man page.
>   I'm willing to sacrifice the 15MB or so that text-only man pages would occupy,
>   but I can't find the suckers!  Local IBM support says they believe that
>   man pages don't exist at all because of the graphical IE, but clearly this
>   is false, as regular unix-style text-only man pages DO eventually appear
>   if the IE CD is mounted.  Thanks for shedding light...

The man pages can be copied over from the cdrom to your hard disk.
The following is from a response to a question of mine to IBMLINK.
Hope it helps.

    I will answer your questions starting with how aix.rom gets copied
    from cdrom to disk.

    (Q1) Both files are not necessary.  If you want aix.rom to be
         accessed from disk rather than cdrom, you would issue the
         following sequence of commands:

    mount -V cdrfs -o ro /dev/cd0 /mount_point
    cd /mount_point
    (An example copy)
    cp aix.rom\;1 /usr/lpp/info/En_US/aix.rom

    (Note in the cp command above that I escaped the ;1 with a backslash(\)
    in 'aix.rom\;1' and removed the ;1 in '/usr/lpp/info/En_US/aix.rom')

    (Q2)  If you remount the cdrom, you will be able to access the
          copy you made to the hardfile by doing the following:

    The /usr/lpp/info/data/ispaths file shows where all the InfoExplorer
    data on the cdrom is located.  You can edit that file to show what
    databases/files reside on cd or on disk.  Here is an example of my
    copying aix.rom from the Navigation Database on the cd-rom to disk and
    how it should be referenced in ispaths:

    Before the Change
    ##########################################
    #          info Navigation Database      #
    ##########################################
    id              0
    primary         TRUE
    name            nav
    title           Navigation
    sys             /usr/lpp/info/%L/sys.sys
    key             /usr/lpp/info/%L/aix/aix.key
    rom             /usr/lpp/info/%L/aix/aix.rom


    After being move from cd to hard disk
    ##########################################
    #          info Navigation Database      #
    ##########################################

    id              0
    primary         TRUE
    name            nav
    title           Navigation
    sys             /usr/lpp/info/%L/sys.sys
    key             /usr/lpp/info/%L/cdrom/aix/aix.key
    rom             /usr/lpp/info/%L/disk/aix.rom

    aix.rom was copied from cd-rom to /usr/lpp/info/En_US/disk/aix.rom.  I
    created two directories in /usr/lpp/info/En_US (disk and cdrom). The
    directory 'disk' holds all of the databases (i.e. aix, prog, nav)
    The 'cdrom' directory has the cd-rom mounted on it.

    By editing ispaths properly, whether the files be on disk or CD, they
    will be in the search path.
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