This software is provided without support and without any obligation on the part of Silicon Graphics, Inc. to assist in its use, correction, modification or enhancement. There is no guarantee that this software will be included in future software releases, and it probably will not be included. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF DESIGN, MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE OR TRADE PRACTICE. If you have any problems using this account, or have suggestions concerning its use, please send electronic mail to "postmaster@sgi.com". This version of the man command has two significant changes beyond the version shipped in IRIX 5.3. These features will ship in future versions of IRIX. This version has been tested on IRIX 5.2, IRIX 5.3, and IRIX 6.0.1. It will not work on IRIX 4.0.x systems, although the "awf" command should work. With some changes to the awf script, the awf script should be usable with the IRIX 4 man command, although an additional script will be needed to "fake" the tbl and neqn commands. The primary change is that it will automatically look for the "awf" (awk based man page formatter) command to format unformatted man pages, if the nroff command (part of the dwb or Documenter's Work Bench product) is not installed. The second is that there is a new environment variable that can be set: $MANFMTCMD. If set, and unformatted man pages are to be displayed, this command is used, and is passed the full pathname of the unformatted manpage as it's only additional argument. An updated copy of the man man page is also included. The awf scripts (written by Henry Spencer) are included also, including the man page. The new files are in a compressed tar archive, with relative pathnames. To extract the archive in the normally installed locations, use this command: su root -c 'cd /; zcat man.tar.Z | tar xvpf -' Here is a "tar vtf" listing: ================ rwxr-xr-x 0/0 31776 Jan 28 17:22 1995 usr/bin/man rwxr-xr-x 0/0 2024 Jan 28 15:55 1995 usr/bin/awf r--r--r-- 0/0 189 Jan 28 15:38 1995 usr/lib/awf/common r--r--r-- 0/0 2849 Jan 28 16:19 1995 usr/lib/awf/dev.dumb r--r--r-- 0/0 2191 Jan 28 16:19 1995 usr/lib/awf/mac.man r--r--r-- 0/0 2462 Jan 28 15:38 1995 usr/lib/awf/mac.ms r--r--r-- 0/0 5179 Jan 28 15:38 1995 usr/lib/awf/pass1 r--r--r-- 0/0 12311 Jan 28 15:38 1995 usr/lib/awf/pass2.base r--r--r-- 0/0 697 Jan 28 15:38 1995 usr/lib/awf/pass2.man r--r--r-- 0/0 752 Jan 28 15:38 1995 usr/lib/awf/pass2.ms r--r--r-- 0/0 9502 Jan 28 15:38 1995 usr/lib/awf/pass3 rw-rw-r-- 0/0 4186 Jan 28 17:12 1995 usr/share/catman/u_man/cat1/awf.z r--r--r-- 0/0 13153 Jan 28 17:12 1995 usr/share/catman/u_man/cat1/man.z ================ Here is the sum -r output: ================ 14359 4 usr/bin/awf 55058 63 usr/bin/man 10609 1 usr/lib/awf/common 52694 6 usr/lib/awf/dev.dumb 24271 5 usr/lib/awf/mac.man 01797 5 usr/lib/awf/mac.ms 16284 11 usr/lib/awf/pass1 24527 25 usr/lib/awf/pass2.base 10889 2 usr/lib/awf/pass2.man 08508 2 usr/lib/awf/pass2.ms 00544 19 usr/lib/awf/pass3 31956 9 usr/share/catman/u_man/cat1/awf.z 26489 26 usr/share/catman/u_man/cat1/man.z ================ Dave Olson, olson@sgi.com, 29 Jan 95