[jwhat]

Hi SGI'er,

In playing around with FreeBSD Ports to see if it would work with IRIX, I was using Infosearch and FreeBSD Manual pages a lot to understand the differences between FreeBSD ASH and IRIX ksh.

I also managed to break Infosearch again, but for different reasons:

EDIT/DANGER !! : In hacking the "Uses/compiler.mk" script (which sends compiler output to /dev/null), I noticed that this does chmod on /dev/null which in turn breaks "Infosearch" (it errors with message saying it cannot find the page). So you need to chmod /dev/null back to a+wr to fix the created problem. This took me a day to diagnose and fix ....

So got distracted seeing if I could stand up a man server using man2html script or the FreeBSD man.cgi script.

What I found was that:
1. FreeBSD Man Pages (uses "big perl script" man.cgi) includes lots of UNIX/BSD Variants (including IRIX 6.5.30 , which is broken) and not just FreeBSD
2. FreeBSD ports man2html - appears to also include a cgi plugin: man.cgi which again does not work with IRIX pages

How are you going with this effort ?

Having an online set of manual pages for IRIX 6.5.30 would be very helpful.

Cheers from Oz,


jwhat/John