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From: jwe@che.utexas.edu (John W. Eaton)
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Subject: Re: local man pages
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Date: 13 Mar 91 07:26:57 GMT
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In article <1991Mar12.230038.2676@eecs.wsu.edu>
gbell@genesiscsc.wsu.edu (Greg Bell - Systems) writes:

> 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.

I found the version of man that was distributed with Ultrix 3.x to be
somewhat less than wonderful and I couldn't find anything much better
so I wrote my own.  It understands MANPATH and PAGER environment
variables and knows a few tricks that the standard Ultrix man doesn't.
You can retrieve a copy via anonymous ftp from andy.che.utexas.edu
(128.83.162.5) in the directory pub.

There is also a very complete implementation of man in perl by Tom
Christiansen.  It is available from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
(128.146.8.60) in the directory pub/perl/scripts/tchrist.

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John W. Eaton
jwe@che.utexas.edu
Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin