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From: iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Question about /usr/ucb/man -P option
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Date: 3 Jul 90 18:11:43 GMT
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In article <1990Jul3.142529.495@gumby.cc.wmich.edu> peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard Peirce) writes:
>The man command and related programs that come with ULTRIX are admittedly
>poor.  I took a copy of the 4.3 man and made a few small hacks so that it
>will work with ULTRIX.  I also added code for a default MANPATH so if some-
>forgets to set it, they will still pick up both the ULTRIX man pages and our
>local stuff.

I ended up doing something similar to what you did.

>At USENIX in January, I was told by someone in the ULTRIX development group
>that 4.0 will support alternate search paths.  But I'm not holding my breath.

I won't hold my breath either, but it sure would be nice (hint, hint).

Thanks to all who responded!


Mike Iglesias
University of California, Irvine
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