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From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Manual pages located in NON-STANDARD places in Ultrix
Keywords: MANPATH, Ultrix, man pages, man man, help!
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Date: 11 Jun 91 02:05:35 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.214332.11539@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Jun10.214332.11539@leland.Stanford.EDU> rsingh@elaine4.Stanford.EDU (Rajesh Kumar Singh) writes:
>How do I access man pages stored in non-standard places, such
>as $HOME/man/man[1-8n]/*  or ~friend/man/man[1-8n]/*  or
>/afs/... ?  From the above syntax it is clear that ultrix man
>displayer doesn't read the MANPATH environment variable, as
>with SunOS, for example?

Get a copy of perl (if you don't have it already) and get a copy of
the man written in perl.  We use it here on DECstations and Suns.

man is available via anonymous ftp from convex.com, I believe.  You can
get the perl sources from ftp.uu.net.


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