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From: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Question about /usr/ucb/man -P option
Message-ID: <1990Jul16.202127.13211@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Date: 16 Jul 90 20:21:27 GMT
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In article <3598@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> rostamia@umbc3.umbc.edu.UMBC.EDU (Rouben Rostamian) writes:
>According to the documentation for ultrix V4.0, you may indeed specify an
>alternate path (to replace the default /usr/man) for the man page top
>directory using the -P option.  Alas, as far as I can tell, the -P option
>does not accept more than one directory name, so you cannot say
>man -P /usr/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/private/man ...
>as you do in System V derived systems.  

Maybe someday DEC will finally fix this.  I myself complained with every
release since 2.2.  I guess that shows how much they listen to me. :-)

The fixes I made to the 4.3BSD man to make it work with ULTRIX were trivial.
It can use the MANPATH environment variable or the -P with multiple paths.
Come ON, DEC, it's not that tough to do.
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