[H-GEN] NIC strangenesses

[Martin Pool]

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At 09:47 19/08/99 +1000, you wrote:

>I recently blew my RedHat 6.0 system away and installed Mandrake 6.0.  All
>went well, except for a few little things.  I performed a "server" install,
>just like I had previously with the RedHat distribution. For example the
>following:
>$ man if
>fopen: No such file or directory
>Cannot open man page /usr/man/man1/builtins2.1.bz2
>No manual entry for if

Try 

  commercial-whore$ help if

instead.  (Yes, it's a bug but this is a workaround -- it asks bash directly.)

<hard problems deleted>

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