kurt@wucs.UUCP (Kurt H. Haserodt) (07/06/85)
I've seen references to a faster manual command (for 4.2 bsd or elsewhere) which also allows for a search path environment specification. Does anybody have or know of such a program? Could they send it to me? Thanks in advance. -- Kurt Haserodt ..!ihnp4!wucs!kurt Box 1045 Washington University (314)-889-6160 St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
sob@talcott.UUCP (Scott O Bradner) (07/06/85)
> I've seen references to a faster manual command (for 4.2 bsd or elsewhere) > which also allows for a search path environment specification. Does anybody > have or know of such a program? Could they send it to me? we have reworked man to use a dbm database, its much faster. the database also knows about internal names ( for example the "string(3)" entry has many internal names, strcat, strncat etc ) and "man strncat" will do a man of string. if there is enough requests i can post a diff ( copyrighted sources etc ). scott bradner harvard university sob@harvard.{uucp,arpa,csnet}