Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!hsi!stpstn!aad From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: man (was VMS: logicals UNIX: links) Message-ID: <3189@stpstn.UUCP> Date: 27 Apr 89 16:01:27 GMT References: <475@caldwr.UUCP> <810040@hpsemc.HP.COM> Reply-To: aad@stepstone.com Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT Lines: 24 In article iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) writes: >In VMS I can do > define sys$help sys$library:[help],sys$login:[help] >I would like to be able to do > setenv MANPATH /usr/man:/usr/local/man:~/man alias man man -M /usr/man:/usr/local/man:~/man Certain man programs have directories hard coded in and no provision for change. I think hpux is like that. >Similarly, I would like to move /tmp around when the C compiler fills it up, >in the same way I can redefine SYS$SCRATCH on need. Does it really write in sys$scratch? I thought it wrote in the current directory. In any event, it's probably a good idea for the sysadmin to see to it that /tmp resolves to something fairly large. -- @disclaimer(Any concepts or opinions above are entirely mine, not those of my employer, my GIGI, my VT05, or my 11/34) beak is@>beak is not Anthony A. Datri @SysAdmin(Stepstone Corporation) aad@stepstone.com stpstn!aad