[ksh93-integration-discuss] [install-discuss] No manual entry for ksh93 in nv_72

[David Korn]

cc: roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Subject: Re: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] [install-discuss] No manual entry  for ksh93 in nv_72
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> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote:
> > > William Pursell stated:
> > > < After installing nv_72 I can't find the manual page for ksh93:
> > > < # which ksh93
> > > < /usr/bin/ksh93
> > > < # man ksh93
> > > < No manual entry for ksh93.
> > > <
> > > < Is the manual page in a different package or just missing?
> > >
> > >   Its in a different path:
> > >
> > > $ man -M /usr/dt/man ksh93
> > 
> > Urgh... that's the old ksh93 manual page shipped for CDE's ksh93 ...
> > yes... it's a ksh93 manual page but it lacks around twelve or more years
> > of development&&evolution between ksh93 version 'd-' (the basis for
> > Sun's dtksh (and I really wish Sun would update dtksh's ksh93 basis to a
> > newer version (yes, I know... noone at Sun cares about that...))) and
> > the ksh93 version 's+' we added in Solaris 11/Nevada build 72...
> 
> For the log: I've uploaded the whole ksh93s+ documentation (see
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/announcements/?monthYear
> =September+2007#2007-09-29_OpenSolaris_org_ksh93_documentation_updated
> for the announcement) to
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/docs/ksh93s/ ;
> the main ksh93 manual page can now be found at
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/docs/ksh93s/man/man1/sh/
> 
> The HTML version is still a bit "experimental" since "groff -Thtml"'s
> output is not always perfect (I had to do some manual surgery to repair
> the layout... please report any problems to me if you think something is
> wrong...).
> 
> ----
> 
> Bye,
> Roland
> 

You can use the AST command mm2html to convert the sh man page into html,
	mm2html sh.1 > sh.html

mm2html is a ksh93 shell script that does the conversion.
	mm2html --man
will give you the man page.

There is also a C program troff2html as well in the AST toolkit.

David Korn
dgk at research.att.com