'man' more or less works

[MikeFultonDev]

I wrote a blog on how to use man: feedback welcome!

If you want to play with 'man' so that you can see the various man pages from the tools we are building, it now works well - always more bugs to fix, but they are getting less severe.

You can install it like any other tool - zopen install man-db (but you need the latest meta for it to find the runtime dependencies correctly)

NEW: Even though the blog says it doesn't work yet, UTF-8 man pages DO work.

NEW: If you get the latest drop, it also will gracefully 'fail over' to the system man, so you can do man sh and it will use the /bin/man to show the man page for 'sh'

NEW: if you get the latest drop (Feb 23rd) then you can run mandb (no options) and it will index all the man pages in your MANPATH so that you can then use whatis and apropos. You should remove the z/OS man directory from your MANPATH before running mandb or else you will get a warning about the z/OS man pages.

@IgorTodorovskiIBM @AnthonyGiorgio @lbdyck @gnrossi

[MikeFultonDev]

First page of 'man bash'

[IgorTodorovskiIBM]

Nice!

[MikeFultonDev]

last page of 'man make' (note the for the copyright symbol - still have a few bugs to sort out)

[lbdyck]

upgraded to git 2.40.1 and tried this - please advise.

[v1gnesh]

whence? lol that's new to me.
Only knew about which

[AnthonyGiorgio]

You probably need the zopen man port, as the z/OS built-in one can't handle formatted man pages.

[lbdyck]

[AnthonyGiorgio]

zopen install man-db

[lbdyck]

ty - i'll try that shortly. appreciated.

[lbdyck]

Installed and then had to manually do the .env for it

Now i get this

[IgorTodorovskiIBM]

Thanks Lionel, a few problems here. It seems to be picking up the CI installed path of Jenkins rather than the one in the actual installed location.

If you change your pager to cat: export PAGER=cat does it get rendered correctly for you?

[lbdyck]

sorry - no

[lbdyck]

i'm on a tn3270 session under omvs - not using ssh

[v1gnesh]

I wonder, are you able to use bash within tn3270 omvs?
Does that generally even work?

[lbdyck]

i can use bash and have the same challenge with man :(

[lbdyck]

Tried changing _TAG_REDIR_OUT=txt to just _TAG_REDIR_OUT= with no change. changing pager did nothing other than there was no paging going on.

opened issue on man-db for man man .

[MikeFultonDev]

NEW: Turkish 'vim' (full UTF-8 support)

[MikeFultonDev]

i plan to add a section to the docs for this (unless someone else wants to?)

[MikeFultonDev]

#443 opened