hartzell@boulder.colorado.edu (George Hartzell) (08/22/89)
I am running RISCos 4.01 on an M-2000. Could some kind soul out there
who is more familiar with how system V aranges its man pages tell me
where I should put my local man pages so that man will find them.
I've tried creating a directory and pointing the environment variable
MANPATH at it, to no avail. I rtfm'd, but maybe I missed something.
g.
George Hartzell (303) 492-4535
MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
hartzell@Boulder.Colorado.EDU ..!{ncar,nbires}!boulder!hartzelllgy@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe) (08/22/89)
In article <10915@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartzell@boulder.colorado.edu (George Hartzell) writes: >I am running RISCos 4.01 on an M-2000. Could some kind soul out there >who is more familiar with how system V aranges its man pages tell me >where I should put my local man pages so that man will find them. >I've tried creating a directory and pointing the environment variable >MANPATH at it, to no avail. I rtfm'd, but maybe I missed something. >g. >George Hartzell (303) 492-4535 > MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309 >hartzell@Boulder.Colorado.EDU ..!{ncar,nbires}!boulder!hartzell Ah yes... I wasted several hours on this one. I believe that the following is correct: 1) Unformatted man pages will be successfully found if placed in /usr/man/man?. So you may create /usr/man/manl either as a directory or a symbolic link to some other directory. 2) Formatted man pages will be successfully found if placed in /usr/man/catman/?_man/man? PROVIDED /usr/man/?_man is a symbolic link pointing to catman/?_man. 3) I believe that you can also use the MANPATH environment variable, but I forget the details. My setup is shown below. I place formatted man pages for locally installed commands in /usr/local/man/man1. It works. /usr/man: total 80 l--------- 1 man 12 Mar 16 17:45 a_man -> catman/a_man drwxrwxr-x 5 bin 512 Jul 4 16:06 catman l--------- 1 local 12 Jul 4 16:11 l_man -> catman/l_man drwxrwxr-x 2 bin 512 Jul 4 14:45 man1 drwxrwxr-x 2 bin 512 Mar 16 17:48 man8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root 512 Jul 17 16:06 manl l--------- 1 man 12 Mar 16 17:45 p_man -> catman/p_man l--------- 1 man 12 Mar 16 17:45 u_man -> catman/u_man -r--r--r-- 1 bin 76986 May 16 14:30 whatis l--------- 1 man 12 Jul 4 16:12 x_man -> catman/x_man /usr/man/catman: total 3 drwxrwxr-x 5 bin 512 Apr 6 18:47 a_man l--------- 1 root 15 Jul 4 16:06 l_man -> ../../local/man drwxrwxr-x 10 bin 512 Jul 20 18:21 p_man drwxrwxr-x 5 bin 512 Jul 4 14:34 u_man l--------- 1 root 15 Apr 6 10:06 x_man -> ../../X11/x_man /usr/local/man: total 1 drwxrwxr-x 2 local 1024 Aug 11 14:21 man1 -- Laurence G. Yaffe Internet: lgy@newton.phys.washington.edu University of Washington Bitnet: yaffe@uwaphast.bitnet