[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[AEF]

On Jan 27, 10:14 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> AEF wrote:
> > On Jan 26, 10:16 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> >> In article <342d9c74-0b26-4c4b-9dd2-527d08958... at o36g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
> >>         AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
>
> >>> On Jan 24, 3:59 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> >>>> In article <5288d49e-e43a-463e-a02c-bffcf1393... at o4g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
> >>>>         AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
> >>>>> On Jan 23, 9:38 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> >>>>>> In article <05b548fd-8d1f-48c9-80c4-777bf5f6c... at q35g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>,
> >>>>>>         AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
> >>>>>>> On Jan 22, 8:41 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> >>>>>>>> In article <abd32391-46d6-49e4-aa1c-58d74dcc7... at p2g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
> >>>>>>>>         AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
> >>>>>>>>> On Jan 22, 3:31 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> In article <CKqdnel_5rWYS-XUnZ2dnUVZ_v_in... at giganews.com>,
> >>>>>>>>>>         "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net> writes:
> >>>>>>>>>>> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>> In article <0005d0dd$0$2088$c3e8... at news.astraweb.com>,
> >>>>>>>>>>>>        JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> writes:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> >>> [...]
[...]
> >>> [...]
> >>>> So complain to MS.  I think the fact that the online VMS docs don't
> >>>> include an equivalent to the Unix apropos command as a serious
> >>>> shortcoming.  We all have our pet peeves.  :-)
> >>> Well, there is Help Hints, and I can't remember the last time I was on
> >>> a Unix system that actually _had_ apropos.
> >> Huh?  I can't remember one that didn't.  Oh wait, anything runnng real
> >> AT&T SYS V.  They didn't provide any manuals. expecting you to buy paper
> >> one's from Prentice-Hall.  No man pages, no apropos. And we all know how
> >> well AT&T did in the IT business.  :-)
>
> >> So, what current version of Unix are you using that does not support the
> >> apropos or "man -k" command?  (Hint: they are the exact same command!)
>
> > bash-3.00$ apropos
> > apropos what?
> > bash-3.00$ aspopos copy
> > bash: aspopos: command not found
> > bash-3.00$ man -k
> > usage:  man [-] [-adFlrt] [-M path] [-T macro-package ] [ -s section ]
> > name ...
> >         man [-M path] -k keyword ...
> >         man [-M path] -f file ...
> > bash-3.00$ man -k copy
> > /usr/share/man/windex: No such file or directory
> > bash-3.00$

I misspelled apropos. It was late. (\&-){
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Here's the corrected version:

bash-3.00$ man -k copy
/usr/share/man/windex: No such file or directory
bash-3.00$ apropos copy
/usr/share/man/windex: No such file or directory
bash-3.00$ man -k
usage:  man [-] [-adFlrt] [-M path] [-T macro-package ] [ -s section ]
name ...
        man [-M path] -k keyword ...
        man [-M path] -f file ...
bash-3.00$ apropos
apropos what?
bash-3.00$

> > OK, how do I learn how to copy? How do I find out the version? I know
> > it's Solaris something, probably 8.
>
> cp
> uname -r
>
> In the more general case you buy or borrow a book called "Solaris for
> Complete Idiots", or some similar title.  You can generally find one or
> three at  a big book store.  Or, you can just go to Amazon.com and
> search for "Solaris".  You will probably have to qualify that because
> the name "Solaris" is used for other things than Operating Systems.
>
> When you finish the book, you'll still be a complete idiot but you may
> have learned how to copy, how to find out the O/S version, etc.  Note
> that getting hard copy output is part of the advanced course!!

Thanks, Richard.

I meant "How do I learn how to copy in Unix using the apropos
command"? Bill is telling us how great the command is and I'm already
having trouble using it.

BTW, have you ever seen Unix for Dummies? It's unbelievably bad and
hyper-corny.

AEF