greg@cityzoo.acs.umbc.edu (Greg Sylvain,Lib 007a,3929,) (07/06/90)
Let's try, this again. Ahoy out there, I'm having a problem with the `man' command I someone else has a better solution. I have some local man pages in /usr/local/man/manl and I have a symlink from /usr/local/man/man1 to /usr/local/man/manl, but man seem to fail to travers this link. However, xman (running under R4) does this just fine. (i.e. xman follows a simlink from /usr/man/manl to /usr/local/man/manl.) Because of the nature of being an educational institution, we try to keep a /usr/local tree pretty much the same between architectures. This means keeping man pages in /usr/local/man/manl simply for consitency between architectures. And we have been able to keep a common set of install scripts for all the varied architectures that we have (it installs the appropriate binaries in the same destination directory for each machine). The only way I can think of to get man to work properly is to make a subdirectory man1 in it contains symlinks to all the man pages in ../manl/. Needless to say, I'd rather not do this. Any other suggestions ? Thanks alot, greg (this is on a hp9000s300 machine running 7.0) Greg Sylvain Academic Computing Services Systems Programmer UUCP: ...!{uunet}!umbc5!greg Internet (Arpa) : greg@umbc5.umbc.edu BITNET : GREGS@UMBC