I agree completely with Tim: I use 'man' (or 'info' for gfortran & the like) all the time - but then I'm a die-hard command-liner/shell-scripter who never uses ccp4i!  I haven't got around to installing 6.4 yet but if & when I do & I find the man pages missing as Tim says I'll probably copy over the ones from 6.3 - even though they're maybe now a bit out of date, it's better than no man pages!  ... or maybe better would be something like:

alias manc 'less $CDOC/\!^.doc'

(assuming of course the .doc files aren't also missing).

... or this looks promising: ftp://jaguar.ncsl.nist.gov/current_docs/sctk-1.2/doc/html2man.pl (haven't tried it though).

Cheers

-- Ian


On 15 November 2013 09:48, Tim Gruene <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Dear all,

I am sorry about this 'double' post, but I had no reply on ccp4bb-dev
within about three weeks.

I wonder if I was the only one using the ccp4 man-pages. They were
available until ccp4-6.3 but seem to be absent in the latest version.

I find them utterly handy, much faster than locating the
html-documentation through a web-browser and they probably do not take
up much space.

So I hope to get some votes for redistributing the man-pages through
the ccp4bb.

Best,
Tim

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Dr Tim Gruene
Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
Tammannstr. 4
D-37077 Goettingen

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