* Steven T. Hatton [08-30-05 10:13]:

There are plenty of other man pages from X11.

Try:

rpm -ql xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 | grep -i xterm

I should be able to type `man xterm' and get the xterm man page. It looks like this:

I am aware of the looks of an xterm man page. the 'rpm -ql ...' will give you the location of the man pages you are not able to otherwise access. Then compare to your $MANPATH to see why you don't see them with the man invocation and make the necessary corrections, if necessary. linux does require thought, a _good_thing_ (TM) -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery

* Steven T. Hatton [08-30-05 11:57]:

However:

zgrep man1/xterm /var/lib/pin/ARCHIVES.gz ./CD1/suse/i586/xorg-x11-man-6.8.1-15.i586.rpm: -r--r--r-- 1 root root 39254 Oct 4 19:56 /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz

$ rpm -ql xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 | grep -i xterm $

guess you need to get xterm.1x.gz from xorg-x11-man-6.8.1-15.i586.rpm and put it at /usr/X11R6/man/man1/ since it is not in xorg-x11-man-6.8.1-30...., if you wish to use 'man xterm'. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery

* Carlos E. R. [08-31-05 13:02]:

The xterm manpage is not included in SuSE 9.3.

Except in japanese:

even thou its from 9.0, the man page files for xterm is available and should be the same: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/xterm.1x.gz I can also get 9.1 and 9.2 from the dvd's if the above is not satisfactory. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery

On Wednesday 31 August 2005 10:34, Carlos E. R. wrote:

The Tuesday 2005-08-30 at 12:22 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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guess you need to get xterm.1x.gz from xorg-x11-man-6.8.1-15.i586.rpm and put it at /usr/X11R6/man/man1/ since it is not in xorg-x11-man-6.8.1-30...., if you wish to use 'man xterm'.

The xterm manpage is not included in SuSE 9.3.

Except in japanese:

./DVD1/suse/noarch/xmanja-0.7-302.noarch.rpm: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56783 Mar 19 21:15 /usr/X11R6/man/ja/man1/xterm.1x.gz

-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

I don't know what to make of this: /usr/share/doc/packages/xterm/README "Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here This is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution. It was one of the first "serious" programs ported, and still has a lot of historical baggage. Ideally, there would be a general tty widget and then vt102 and tek4014 subwidgets so that they could be used in other programs. We are trying to clean things up as we go, but there is still a lot of work to do. If you are porting this to a machine that has problems with overlapping bcopy's, watch out! There are two documents on xterm: the man page, xterm.man, which describes how to use it, and ctlseqs.ms, which describes the control sequences it understands." rpm -ql xterm-200-3 /usr/X11R6/bin/Backarrow2BackSpace /usr/X11R6/bin/Backarrow2Delete /usr/X11R6/bin/luitx /usr/X11R6/bin/resize /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/UXTerm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.termcap /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.terminfo /usr/bin/xterm /usr/share/applications/xterm.desktop /usr/share/doc/packages/xterm /usr/share/doc/packages/xterm/README /usr/share/doc/packages/xterm/README.SuSE /usr/share/doc/packages/xterm/README.i18n /usr/share/pixmaps/terminal.png I will say that though xterm may be the ugliest program in the distribution, it is one of the most important. It's the only terminal emulation program I use on a regular basis. The problem with omitting the man page (which I assume was an oversight) is that other apps often refer to it for instructions on how to set x-resources. -- Regards, Steven

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:10, Anders Johansson wrote:

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 17:29, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Steven T. Hatton [08-30-05 10:13]:

...

There are plenty of other man pages from X11.

Try:

rpm -ql xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 | grep -i xterm

I should be able to type `man xterm' and get the xterm man page. It looks like this:

I am aware of the looks of an xterm man page.

the 'rpm -ql ...' will give you the location of the man pages you are not able to otherwise access. Then compare to your $MANPATH to see why you don't see them with the man invocation and make the necessary corrections, if necessary.

As far as I can see, the only man page for xterm included in 9.3 is the japanese one, in the xmanja package, but that's probably not very useful.

Unless you happen to read Japanese. Which I can't do. :( -- Regards, Steven