Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!tgould!iwm From: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: man (was VMS: logicals UNIX: links) Message-ID: Date: 20 Apr 89 12:19:47 GMT References: <475@caldwr.UUCP> <810040@hpsemc.HP.COM> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, London Lines: 28 In-reply-to: gph@hpsemc.HP.COM's message of 19 Apr 89 00:41:50 GMT Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.2 of Wed Sep 16 1987 on ivax (berkeley-unix) I have a question about man, I know how to solve it on VMS using logical names, so now seems like a good time to ask it !. When stuff arrives on comp.sources.{unix misc games} I save some of it and try to use some of that. Usually there is a man page, which I put in ~/man . The question is how can I make man look there ? 'man man' reveals nothing, I have no access to the source (in fact strings `which man` shows I can't read the binary either), needless to say I can't touch /usr/man. This is a BSD system. In VMS I can do define sys$help sys$library:[help],sys$login:[help] I would like to be able to do setenv MANPATH /usr/man:/usr/local/man:~/man Similarly, I would like to move /tmp around when the C compiler fills it up, in the same way I can redefine SYS$SCRATCH on need. -- Ian W Moor UUCP: uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!iwm ARPA: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk JANET: iwm@uk.ac.ic.doc Department of Computing We don't need no documentation, Imperial College. We don't need no source control, 180 Queensgate No dark sarcasm in the boardroom, London SW7 UK. Manager! leave those programmers alone!