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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: Robert Palank <srfpala@inlink.com>
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Subject: Re: Expansion of /man1 pages
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On Wed, 14 May 1997, Robert Palank wrote:

> It isn't clear to me how I'm supposed to expand the pages in man1.
> I tried catman /usr/share/man/man1 and this failed with the error message
> chmod: Operation not permitted.
> Also, I can't seem to locate the file to change the myname:{1} prompt to
> something like FreeBSD ==>

Depends on the shell you're using. For csh/tcsh use set prompt in your 
.cshrc file. For other shells, see their respective man pages.

> If this is in the Lehey  book, then I missed it.
> All help is appreciated.
> Best Regards
>    Bob Palank
> 
Nadav