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From: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Manual pages located in NON-STANDARD places in Ultrix
Keywords: MANPATH, Ultrix, man pages, man man, help!
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.135234.977@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 13:52:34 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.214332.11539@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Western Michigan University Academic Computing Services
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In article <1991Jun10.214332.11539@leland.Stanford.EDU> rsingh@elaine4.Stanford.EDU (Rajesh Kumar Singh) writes:
>
>My question is about MANPATH under ultrix (on two different
>machines).

MANPATH doesn't work on the man included with ULTRIX.  It's easy to take
the 4.3BSD man command and hack it up to work with ULTRIX (so that it supports
multiple character extensions, etc.) if you have access to the 4.3 source.
I did and I replace DEC's man as one of my first tasks after upgrading ULTRIX.

There are also a number of free man implementations that are available.
Tom Christiansen wrote one in perl that is available via anonymous FTP
from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu in the pub/perl/scripts/tchrist directory.  John
Eaton at U of Texas also wrote one that is available from andy.che.utexas.edu
in the pub/src/unix directory.  There are others out there but I can't remem-
ber where they are.

Are you listening, DEC?

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