rsingh@elaine4.Stanford.EDU (Rajesh Kumar Singh) (06/11/91)
My question is about MANPATH under ultrix (on two different
machines). First the operatings system signatures are:
Ultrix V3.1D (Rev. 54) Worksystem V2.2 System #1: Tue Sep 11 12:24:47 PDT 1990
and Ultrix-32 V3.0 (Rev 64) System #2: Tue Oct 10 11:39:51 PDT 1989
The "man man" gives the following syntax:
man -k keyword...
man -f page_title...
man [-] [-s] [1...8] page_title...
How do I access man pages stored in non-standard places, such
as $HOME/man/man[1-8n]/* or ~friend/man/man[1-8n]/* or
/afs/... ? From the above syntax it is clear that ultrix man
displayer doesn't read the MANPATH environment variable, as
with SunOS, for example?
Locally at Stanford I asked this question three times on
air.unix and twice sent mails to u-ask@air(ASK ULTRIX) but
no satisfactory answers in over three weeks.
Only one consultant pointed out a (seemingly undocumented) swith
-P <dir>. The trouble is it doesn't take an argument like
-P <dir1>:<dir2>:... like most other path specifications.
Help!! --raj (rsingh@leland.stanford.edu)
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