Man wouldn't be too difficult to port. The problem is you don't have
the AIX manual pages - even if you have GNU coreutils installed, PASE
is fundamentally different from Linux/BSDs and even AIX.
The man pages are useful, but are more reference documentation. To be
fair, most of the IBM i documentation is documentation, even if it's
fairly good. There is, however, a lot of documentation around for
approaching *nix as a beginning - most of the i oriented documentation
for new users is for V5 or older. (My non-PASE based i knowledge comes
from trial-and-error poking and asking people who have had experience
with the system already.)
-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
Jack Woehr
Sent: April 16, 2019 1:08 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ssh and sftp on the i
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 9:04 AM Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
man is an excellent, quick way
of getting information. It would be great if they were on the IBM i.
There are (unfortunate) reasons they are not, which are discussed on
IBMiOSS on Ryver.
Hence the need for a Linux system handy. Besides which, having the
reference platform is great because the exotic platform is harder to
learn
on.
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