Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:32065 comp.unix.ultrix:7592 comp.unix.wizards:25925 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!elaine4.Stanford.EDU!rsingh From: rsingh@elaine4.Stanford.EDU (Rajesh Kumar Singh) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Manual pages located in NON-STANDARD places in Ultrix Keywords: MANPATH, Ultrix, man pages, man man, help! Message-ID: <1991Jun10.214332.11539@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: 10 Jun 91 21:43:32 GMT Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Organization: Stanford University - AIR Lines: 32 My question is about MANPATH under ultrix (on two different machines). First the operatings system signatures are: Ultrix V3.1D (Rev. 54) Worksystem V2.2 System #1: Tue Sep 11 12:24:47 PDT 1990 and Ultrix-32 V3.0 (Rev 64) System #2: Tue Oct 10 11:39:51 PDT 1989 The "man man" gives the following syntax: man -k keyword... man -f page_title... man [-] [-s] [1...8] page_title... 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? Locally at Stanford I asked this question three times on air.unix and twice sent mails to u-ask@air(ASK ULTRIX) but no satisfactory answers in over three weeks. Only one consultant pointed out a (seemingly undocumented) swith -P . The trouble is it doesn't take an argument like -P ::... like most other path specifications. Help!! --raj (rsingh@leland.stanford.edu) -- Rajesh Kumar Singh E-mail: rsingh@leland.stanford.edu Gauls! We have nothing to fear; except perhaps that the sky may fall on our heads tomorrow. But as we all know, tomorrow never comes!! -- Adventures of Asterix.