On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 07:54:05AM -0400, Hersh, Harry wrote: > I'm a new linux user (but an old unix hacker) who can't figure out what > happened to man, the manpage reader. I've installed a system via > floppies and the net (no cd yet on this machine), and can see the man > directories and the compressed manfiles (using zmore dumps a page with > all the nroff commands in it) , but cannot locate a reader on the > system.
Did you install "man-db" package? It contains /usr/bin/man. And, of course, you *may* *read* man pages with zcat | nroff | less :))) -- Alexey Vyskubov