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From: jimj@miller.cs.uwm.edu (James Jegers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Kernel namelist not found, man fixes
Summary: getting arp, w, uptime to work
Keywords: namelist, man
Message-ID: <1992Jul21.204316.4729@uwm.edu>
Date: 21 Jul 92 20:43:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: uwm.1992Jul21.204316.4729
Sender: jimj@miller.cs.uwm.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Lines: 42
First, Thanks for writting 386bsd it's a great assest to us.
1. I'm having some problems with arp, w, and uptime.
When I run them they say bad namelist, or can't get namelist.
Looking at the sources it appears that w, uptime, and arp
are looking for labels that I don't have in my kernel.
Is this the way it's supposed to be? Or why were they programs
put in with the system(just to make it complet?)
2. How do I get the shell to reqonize the stop(control-C) and
suspend(control-Z) character? For example if I type make and
decide I want to stop it, i have to login someplace else
and kill the process. Or hasn't this been added yet?
3. I fixed a couple of man problems.
The manual page for magic and file all have two dots
before the commands, eg. "..SH" it should be ".SH"
just delete one of the double dots in the whole file and then
it will work.
The Makefile in /usr/othersrc/share/man/Makefile creates the whatis.db.
The problem is that it doesn't strip the backspaces in the
title and apropos can't handle that. So add a "col -b" to strip
those.
exerpt from the makefile.
makedb:
for file in `find /usr/share/man -type f -name '*.0' -print`; do \
sed -n -f /usr/share/man/makewhatis.sed $$file; \
done | col -b | sort -u > whatis.db
install -o ${BINOWN} -g ${BINGRP} -m 444 whatis.db \
${DESTDIR}/usr/share/man
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