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From: rwood@pa.dec.com (Richard Wood)
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Subject: Re: local man pages
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.164949@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 00:49:49 GMT
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> In article <1991Mar12.190455.18062@eecs.wsu.edu> gbell@genesis.csc.wsu.edu (Greg Bell - Systems) writes:
> I have a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix 4.1. I recently ported ispell
> to it, which wants to put the man pages in /usr/man/manl. Doing a `man
> man' seems to suggest that `man local ispell' should work, which it
> does if I use the System V man (/usr/bin/man), but I get a
> Segmentation fault with /usr/ucb/man. Typing only `man ispell'
> indicates that there is no man page for ispell. Am I doing anything
> wrong, or is the Berkeley man broken? 
 

Make sure the suffix on the file in /usr/man/manl is ".l".

I.e., if the file is /usr/man/manl/ispell.l

Then "man ispell" should find it.

Apropos and "man -k" won't find it unless you rebuild the whatis
database with catman, but this shouldn't affect "man" itself.

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Richard Wood     Corporate Worksystems Team      Digital Equipment Corp.
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