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From: rsi...@elaine4.Stanford.EDU (Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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Subject: Manual pages located in NON-STANDARD places in Ultrix
Keywords: MANPATH, Ultrix, man pages, man man, help!
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.214332.11539@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 10 Jun 91 21:43:32 GMT
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My question is about MANPATH under ultrix (on two different
machines). First the operatings system signatures are:
Ultrix V3.1D (Rev. 54) Worksystem V2.2 System #1: Tue Sep 11 12:24:47 PDT 1990
and Ultrix-32 V3.0 (Rev 64) System #2: Tue Oct 10 11:39:51 PDT 1989
The "man man" gives the following syntax:
man -k keyword...
man -f page_title...
man [-] [-s] [1...8] page_title...
How do I access man pages stored in non-standard places, such
as $HOME/man/man[1-8n]/* or ~friend/man/man[1-8n]/* or
/afs/... ? From the above syntax it is clear that ultrix man
displayer doesn't read the MANPATH environment variable, as
with SunOS, for example?
Locally at Stanford I asked this question three times on
air.unix and twice sent mails to u-ask@air(ASK ULTRIX) but
no satisfactory answers in over three weeks.
Only one consultant pointed out a (seemingly undocumented) swith
-P <dir>. The trouble is it doesn't take an argument like
-P <dir1>:<dir2>:... like most other path specifications.
Help!! --raj (rsi...@leland.stanford.edu)
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From: tri...@anu.oz.au (Andrew Tridgell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Manual pages located in NON-STANDARD places in Ultrix
Keywords: MANPATH, Ultrix, man pages, man man, help!
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.064955.25113@newshost.anu.edu.au>
Date: 11 Jun 91 06:49:55 GMT
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I have a local man directory /u/local/man[1-8]
I then do this
cd /usr/man/man1
ln -s /u/local/man/man1/* ./
and so on. ie. make soft links, can be easily scripted for easy update.
Andrew
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