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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

AEF wrote:
> 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.
> 

The apropos command needs some setup before it can be used.  You need to 
say "catman -w" q.v.