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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

AEF wrote:
> On Jan 27, 12:13 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>> In article <19dfe02a-d7a7-4d0c-be27-1c4ba069a... at f18g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>,
>>         AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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. (\&-){
>>>                                      \ /
>>>                                       V
>>> 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$
>> My suggestion.  Stop using Unix.
> 
> Now how is that going to show me how to use the apropos command?
> 
>>>>> OK, how do I learn how to copy? How do I find out the version? I know
>>>>> it's Solaris something, probably 8.
>>>> cp
> 
> Yes, I know that's the copy command. I was wondering how you use the
> apropos command. I thought you were supposed to give it a search word
> like copy and it would come up with the man page for cp or something
> like that. I guess I'll have to hunt down the answer on the Web. I
> even tried man apropos and it says:
> 
> NAME
>      apropos - locate commands by keyword lookup
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>      apropos keyword...
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>      The apropos utility displays  the  man  page  name,  section
>      number, and a short description for each man page whose NAME
>      line contains keyword.  This information is contained in the
> 
> Okay, copy is in the "NAME line" for cp, yet apropos copy does not
> give the man page for cp or even mention cp:
> 
> 
> NAME
>      cp - copy files
> 
> Okay, the keyword 'copy' is in the NAME line. But:
> 
> bash-3.00$ man -k copy files

Try man -k "copy files"

It's all in knowing how!