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From: honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman)
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Subject: Re: $MANPAGES
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 08:07:15 EDT
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a few years ago, i hacked up berkeley's man.c for something similar.  i
made it it examine PATH and replace all instances of a trailing "bin"
by a trailing "man."

this worked ok, but there were so many bugs in berkeley's man that i
threw the whole thing away last year and gave up on online man pages
altogether.

	peter

ps:  here's a script for .profile to set MANPATH:

oIFS="$IFS"
IFS=":$IFS"
for i in $PATH; do
	if [ `basename $i` = "bin" ]; then
		m=`echo $i|sed 's/bin$/man/'`
		if [ -d $m ]; then
			MANPATH="$MANPATH $m"
		fi
	fi
done
IFS="$oIFS"