Xref: utzoo comp.windows.x:33448 comp.unix.aix:3810 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!uunet!panews.awdpa.ibm.com!fried.awdpa.ibm.com!david From: david@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: xman on AIX Message-ID: <1991Feb28.185637.28319@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> Date: 28 Feb 91 18:56:37 GMT References: Sender: news@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (news id) Reply-To: david@fried.awdpa.ibm.com (David Berkowitz) Distribution: comp Organization: IBM AWD, Palo Alto Lines: 22 In article agw@cs.columbia.edu writes: >Having setenv MANPATH to be /usr/local/man:/usr/man, I have found that >xman can only find the local stuff. This is because the man pages for >AIX on a RISC600 are on a CD. (The usual man directories /usr/man are >provided, but are empty.) > There are no ACTUAL man pages on the system. The man command has been changed so that it will extract data from the hypertext information library and do its best to present the information in a man-like format. man will also scan for actual man pages in the usual places if it does not find any information in the hypertext library. So I suppose xman would ONLY find stuff in MANPATH. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Berkowitz uunet!ibmsupt!david (415) 855-4485 | | Take off your shoes. IBM Personal Systems Programming, Palo Alto | for industry! This does not represent an official IBM position. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------