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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Question about /usr/ucb/man -P option
Message-ID: <12989@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Jul 90 06:55:02 GMT
References: <268BC4A7.8934@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <268BC4A7.8934@orion.oac.uci.edu> iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
> 
> I've discovered that /usr/ucb/man (Ultrix 3.1) has a (undocumented) -P
> option to set the path to look for man pages.  Is there a way to tell
> it more than one path to look at?  I have a need to specify 2
> different paths (/usr/man and one other) for man pages, and I can't
> seem to find the right incantation to get it to take more than one
> path. 

Have you considered using symlinks to make your man directory show up as
/usr/man/manx?  This works for us, although it seems to require that the
suffixes on the man entries match the subdirectory to some extent...

> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike Iglesias
> University of California, Irvine
> Internet:    iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu
> BITNET:      iglesias@uci
> uucp:        ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias


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