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From: pmorris@bbn.com (phil morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Request from CBM for Improvements
Message-ID: <15038@snow-white.udel.EDU>
Date: 26 Mar 90 22:17:06 GMT
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>From: Chris Lang <chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu>
>Subject: Re: Request from CBM for Improvements
>Date: 22 Mar 90 04:40:00 GMT
>To:       amiga-relay@udel.edu
>
>In article <19485@grebyn.com> allen@grebyn.com writes:
>>Step 3. -- This is the critical step.  Add to your shell-startup or
>>           startup-sequence file the following line:
>>
>>              alias man more MAN:[].man
>>
>>           If you're using the HD method you need to add:
>>
>>              assign MAN: YourDevice:YourPath/YourDirectory
>
>I've been doing this for a while.  I can attest that it works very nicely.
>One of these days I'm going to get around to writing an ARexx script to
>make things more intelligent, but....
>
> -Chris
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>"I hate quotations.  Tell me what you know."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What about just using MRMan?? You don't have to have all the files in a
single directory nor do they have to end in .man (they can end in .man,
.doc, .txt, no extension, etc).  This program I have found to be VERY
useful.
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Phil Morris (pmorris@dgi0.bbn.com)
Disclaimer: ME? I'm only a non-smoking cat; can't believe a word I meow.