Escape key work needed..& man to be enabled

[abhijeet_7]

Hello gurus,
i want the 'escape' key to work while working
on my putty session.
what are the particular settings i need to do for that particular user(.profile??)

secondly,i am not able to read any manual pages.

in /usr/share
it looks like this

drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 May 14 2004 applications
drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 512 May 14 2004 javadoc
drwxr-xr-x 17 root sys 512 May 14 2004 lib
dr--r--r-- 91 root other 2048 May 14 2004 man
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 May 14 2004 pixmaps
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 May 13 2004 release_info
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 May 14 2004 src
$ pwd
/usr/share

i want man pages for help.
should i include my user in "other" group.

thirdly,
"cls" doesn't work ..i have to type "clear"
i want "cls" to work..what should i do?
i set alias as
$ alias cls=clear
$ cls
cls: not found
$ alias clear=cls
$ cls
cls: not found

thanks all,
regards

ABHI K

[bhavin asokan]

hi,
the directory /usr/share/man and its subdirectories should be having bin:bin permission
do the following

cd /usr/share
chown -R bin:bin man


see the permissions of man directory
dr-xr-xr-x 36 bin bin 8192 Jul 1 2004 man

and inside man directory

drwxrwxrwx 2 bin bin 96 Jan 3 12:40 cat1.Z
drwxrwxrwx 2 bin bin 8192 Jul 9 2004 cat1m.Z
drwxrwxrwx 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 cat2.Z
drwxrwxrwx 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 cat3.Z
drwxrwxrwx 2 bin bin 96 Jul 6 2004 cat4.Z
drwxrwxrwx 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 cat5.Z
drwxrwxrwx 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 cat6.Z
drwxrwxrwx 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 cat7.Z
drwxrwxrwx 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 cat8.Z
lr-xr-xr-t 1 root sys 25 Jul 1 2004 chinese-t -> /usr/share/man/zh_TW.ccdc
lr-xr-xr-t 1 root sys 25 Jul 1 2004 chinese-t.big5 -> /usr/share/man/zh_TW.big5
dr-xr-xr-x 10 bin bin 8192 Jul 1 2004 ja_JP.SJIS
dr-xr-xr-x 10 bin bin 8192 Jul 1 2004 ja_JP.eucJP
lr-xr-xr-t 1 root sys 25 Jul 1 2004 japanese -> /usr/share/man/ja_JP.SJIS
lr-xr-xr-t 1 root sys 26 Jul 1 2004 japanese.euc -> /usr/share/man/ja_JP.eucJP
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 man1
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 16384 Oct 22 01:01 man1.Z
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 man1m
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 24576 Jul 2 2004 man1m.Z
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 man2
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 8192 Jul 2 2004 man2.Z
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 man3
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 57344 Jul 2 2004 man3.Z
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 man4
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 8192 Jul 2 2004 man4.Z
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 man5
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 8192 Jul 2 2004 man5.Z
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 man6
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 man6.Z
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 man7
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 8192 Jul 2 2004 man7.Z
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 man8
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 man8.Z
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 8192 Jul 1 2004 man9.Z
dr-xr-xr-x 3 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 zh_CN.hp15CN
dr-xr-xr-x 3 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 zh_TW.big5
dr-xr-xr-x 3 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 zh_TW.ccdc
dr-xr-xr-x 3 bin bin 96 Jul 1 2004 zh_TW.eucTW

[bhavin asokan]

hi,
run set -o vi for escape key or put it in the .profile


alias cls=clear is correct
if not working try
alias cls=/usr/bin/clear

regds,