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Date:	Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:25:49 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: scroll-search command line utility ?

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> Peter Skye said:
>
> >must I allocate the usual 1am-5am
> >time slot for installing

As promised, here I am right in the middle. :)

Steven Levine wrote:
>
> Did you read the readme? You have a
> knack for making things complicated.

I'm a-lookin' at README-man.os2 right now. It says I need "GNU groff
system" but gives "obsolete" links, "GNU grep" (I only have Graham's),
"less" (of 10-page help screen fame, yes I now have it), gzip and
bzip2. These are the "Required Executables" and I presume man calls
them for various functions. There are a bunch of other executables if
you want to use the make*.cmd files but I don't need those.

> Well, what I did was:
>
> - read the readme
> - realize that there were both English
> and Japanese versions included
> - decide to ignore the Japanese version
> until I learned the language

Darn, why didn't I think of that? Okay, I'll set aside my Japanese For
Dummies book.

> - realize that source code and build tools were included
> - decide to ignore these until I need to build from source
> - install emx-man.zip as instructed

unzip emx-man -d X:\

or in my case (I use scripts)

if exist H:\emx goto OK
echo Cannot find H:\emx directory
pause
goto EndOfCmd
:OK
unzip man15g.2\emx-man.zip -d H:\
:EndOfCmd

> - verify that my gzip install was OK

Uh oh, I need to go find and install gzip.

> - verify that my less install was OK

All 10 help pages worth. :)))

> - use it

At least we agree on the goal.

But it won't run even though I set the environment variables:

[G:\]man
Warning: cannot open configuration file c:/os2/etc/man.conf
What manual page do you want?
[G:\]set MAN_CONF=H:/emx/etc/man.cnf
[G:\]set MANPATH=H:/emx/man
[G:\]set MANPAGER=less
[G:\]man
Warning: cannot open configuration file c:/os2/etc/man.conf
What manual page do you want?
[G:\]

And yes, man.cnf is in H:\emx\etc\

[Lurkers: emx requires / not \, although sometimes \ works.]

I'll play with this thing again *tomorrow* at 3 a.m.

I've also run into this "c:/" drive thing with the latest sendmail port
-- it keeps looking on the C: drive but everything is on the H: drive.
Don't know why.

- Peter

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