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"Mark J. Reed" <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 10 May 2008 16:36:38 -0400
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I don't think I'm still seeing Tiger man pages in this instance.  If
anything I'm seeing man pages from 10.6, since they describe features
that aren't yet implemented. :)



On 5/10/08, John Baxter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> One thing to watch out for here, which can cause confusion when
> reading man pages.
>
> I did an update install of Leopard over Tiger on my MacBook.  It was
> only later (while working over the phone with the boss and finding
> different options listed for a command on the man pages on his Leopard
> machine and on mine) that I found that the man pages on the MacBook
> were those from Tiger.  (The programs themselves were those from
> Leopard.)
>
> All was well on my other machine, where I did a clean install and then
> used Migration Assistant to bring stuff over from a SuperDuper clone.
>
> (I cleaned up the MacBook by doing a clean install and using Migration
> Assistant to copy from the TimeMachine backup [I had two bootable
> clones in reserve].)
>
>    --John
>

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