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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 15:18:04 EDT
From: <JDA108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Message-ID: <92270.151804JDA108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Beginning questions:
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Well, I got the bin stuff installed, and I haven't crashed it yet, but there
are some questions/broken things I can't quite figure out on my own.
Some of the stuff might be covered in the /etc distribution, but space is a
little limited, and I don't wanna dump it all to floppies needlessly. So,
here goes:
1) When attempting to do a 'w', I get an error about not being able to find
a certain file. (I'm not at home, wish I'd have written this stuff down).
Any idea what might need to be fixed from the default setup in the bin
distribution?
2) While attempting to find some help on different things, I did a man -k
and got a 'apropos: cannot find whatis.db'. Ok, I have the whatis command
but not much of a clue how to build the database for this. (BTW it also
dumps core. Happy happy.)
3) For a lack of being able to fix the above problems, I went and fetched the
source to tcsh. I got version 6.00.02. Anyone know exactly what changes
need to be made before compiling before I go mucking around myself?
Thanks in advance. :)
-Jeff