Re: [nv-l] NetView anual pages on SuSe 9.1

[Paul <pstroud@bellsouth.net>]

Jane,
I can confirm the same thing on a SUSE machine I have here. I will look 
into how the manpath
is built and names parsed to see if I can come up with something to 
resolve it.
Paul


Jane Curry wrote:

> I have NetView 7.1.4 FP2 installed on SuSE 9.1 Professional.  So far 
> it looks good except for a quirk with the man command.  I have added 
> /usr/OV/man to my MANPATH but no "man <netview command>" works.  
> Inspecting other man pages on this system, they all follow the 
> convention that an entry in, say, man1, has a name of <command>.1.  I 
> have copied /usr/OV/man/man8/netmon to /usr/OV/man/man8/netmon.8 and 
> "man netmon" now works.
> Can anyone else comment on this?  If there are no better ways around, 
> I guess I can just write a wee script to rename all the man entries 
> but I'm hoping for a cleaner answer.....
> Cheers,
> Jane