Man Pages for OS X Tiger

Does anyone know where I can download the man pages ? My iMac went to the "grey screen with endless spinning gear of death" and I want to download my files to an external drive (by firewire) but my Mac will not recognize the external drive as I am in the Install services via Disk 1. I can see my files via terminal and I want to be able to manually set up the external drive to I can transfer then I can wipe out my HD and start over.
Anyone have any suggestions and or know of where I can get the pages ? Thx !!!

OK. Let me make sure I am understanding this correctly:
- you have a problem with the mac such that you cannot boot
- you can boot from the install disk
- you have an external FW drive which you wish to transfer files to before reinstalling
Questions:
- have you used the external drive before or is it new?
- when you say you are "at the utilities menu", do you mean that you've opened Disk Utility and you can see the external drive on the left?
-> if so, select it and then choose the "Erase" tab. Select a format and give the disk a name. It is not a bad idea to choose the "security options" and opt to write zeros (once) to the disk. Then choose "erase". This will erase everything on the disk so only do this if the disk is new or you don't need anything on the disk. If you aren't sure which format to choose from the drop-down menu, "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" is a good choice unless you need to use the disk with Windows as well. If you chose the writing zeros option, find something to do as it will take a while depending on the size of the disk. Try mounting the new volume now - that is, select the volume on the left (it will have your chosen name) and choose mount from the menu or toolbar.
- how are you thinking of transferring your files? If the drive is suitable, you could install OS X on the external drive, boot from that and retrieve the files from your internal drive that way. Or were you thinking of something else?
Manpages:
- are you using Terminal from the Utilities menu on the install disk? I think you can access the man pages that way. I don't know if you can do so directly, though you can try, but you may be able to access them from hour hard drive by specifying a complete path e.g. man /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/usr/share/man/man1/kill.1.
Have you tried repairing your internal drive using Disk Utility?
- cfr

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RETURN VALUES
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ERRORS
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o stack_base is NULL and stack_size is not
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#include <thread.h>
#include <errno.h>
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void sub_a(void );
void sub_b(void );
void sub_c(void );
void sub_d(void );
void sub_e(void );
void sub_f(void );
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for (i=0;i<1000000*(int)thr_self();i++);
printf("C: Thread exiting...\n");
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thread_t thr_b = (thread_t) arg;
int i;
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void *status;
printf("D: In thread D...\n");
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fprintf(stderr,"Can't create thr_e\n"), exit(1);
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thr_continue(thr_b);
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fprintf(stderr,"thr_join Error\n"), exit(1);
printf("D: E thread (%d) returned thread (%d) w/status %d\n", thr_e,
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printf("D: Thread exiting...\n");
thr_exit((void *)55);
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thread_t ret_thr;
void *status;
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fprintf(stderr,"thr_join Error\n"), exit(1);
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rc = -1#
Any ideas as to what -1 indicates and how to solve this?
Thanks for your response,
dedham_ma_man

ok, my bad. I wasn't linking in the -lthread library.
Thanks anyway.

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I wasn't sure where to post this so I'm gonna post it here.
I've got man page entries from certain utiilities from the posix programmers manual, like "at" and "talk" but these utilities aren't actually installed,
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Last edited by pseudonomous (2008-10-08 23:30:57)

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P.S. POSIX is a *nix standardization effort.
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I'm using localepurge every after update/installation and megabytes trown out are countless (with all respect for all other languages). Isn't waste?
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Hi danuke,
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Allan wrote:
zodmaner wrote:Anyway, since only x86_64 have this 'problem', should we file a bug report on this?
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>
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{quote}
Well, it depends; suppose you want to check dns after nis and before files. The line may look like this:
{code}
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{code}
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There are PL/SQL APIs related to content creation and management. Check out the add_folder function.
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[Solved] Looking for arch's original man page color codes

Hey everyone. I'm new to arch, and enjoying having everything begin to work out for me. One thing I was wondering though is what the color codes are that the man pages use before X is loaded or anything similar.
Per the archwiki, I'm using the following to provide myself with colored man pages in urxvt:
From .Xresources:
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Last edited by zematis (2014-05-12 22:21:30)

ayekat, thanks for the warm welcome!
ayekat wrote:What article in the wiki?
Here's the section in the Wiki I was referring to:
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karol wrote:Are you talking about using man pages before installing Arch or after installing but in the tty? Do you want to get the same colors in X?
(I think) I was talking about the colors that the man pages are in the TTY. Specifically, my processes is:
Boot up arch
Login (X yet not started)
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Startx - boot to window manager (i3)
Look at a man page - want to change the colors
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ayekat wrote:Here you are changing how urxvt displays characters that are marked as underline, italic or bold; in particular you are changing their colours.
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Makes sense
ayekat wrote:As for changing the colour scheme of the manpage, you'll probably want to do it more properly, using the LESS_TERMCAP environment variables.
I tried copying your format to my .bashrc and it worked great! So that's a win. Now I just need to figure out what the '\e[#;#;#m' numbers mean. I think I can probably handle that one on my own though. I found a resource here at:
http://misc.flogisoft.com/bash/tip_colo … ng#colors2
And it looks like it covers what I need to know.
Thanks for your help!
And honestly, at this point I think I can figure out what colorscheme I like given the info at hand. So I think we can call this one taken care of.
If it interests anyone, I found a .sh script at the above link to display all 256 colors, then modified it to show the colors bolded, italicized etc. Here's the script:
#!/bin/bash
# This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to
# the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it
# and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want
# To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See
# http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.
for coltype in {0..8} ; do # Bold, Italic etc.
for fgbg in 38 48 ; do #Foreground/Background
for color in {0..256} ; do #Colors
#Display the color
echo -en "\e[(0${coltype});(${fgbg};5;${color}m ${color}\t\e[0m"
#Display 10 colors per lines
if [ $((($color + 1) % 10)) == 0 ] ; then
echo #New line
fi
done
echo #New line
echo #New line
done
echo #New line
done
exit 0

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