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From: magnus%thep.lu.se@Urd.lth.se (Magnus Olsson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Manpath?
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.143738.5663@lth.se>
Date: 19 Mar 91 14:37:38 GMT
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Organization: Theoretical Physics, Lund university, Sweden
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The manual pages for man (1) say that one can use the -P manpath
option to search for manual pages in a different place than the
usual /usr/man/man?. However, this means that the man command
won't find the usual man pages.

Is there a simple way of making man search first in the usual place,
and then, if the mn page isn't found, in another directory (e.g.
/usr/local/man)? It's a bit irritating to have to install the manual
pages for local software in /usr/man - we lost some manual pages for
this reason the last time we upgraded the system.

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