RE: OT - Shutting down an RS/6000 ?

["McCallion, Martin" <martin.mccallion@xxxxxxxxx>]

jpcarr@tredegar.com wrote:

> Doing QSH
>
> I did a    MAN
>
> and got this
>
> man
> qsh: 001-0019 Error found searching for command man. No such path or
> director
> y.
>
> Of course when I put my cursor on the message and pressed F1  I got
> "Help information not available"
>
> to go with the fact that you cannot read about a Command WHILE you are
> doing the command.

To be fair, though, QShell is (IMHO) a very poor shell implementation.
In part it is limited by the 5250 block mode key-handling, which means
that you can't hit <tab> to complete a partially finished file name; but
a lot of the things you'd expect in a standard Unix shell, like man,
they just haven't bothered with.

You can, of course, find several complete sets of man pages on the web.

That said, the OS/400 prompter/command help combination is superior in
general to man pages.  IMHO, of course.

Cheers,

Martin.

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