david@glance.ch (David Mosberger) (02/10/91)
I have written a simple script file to replace `man.' It combines the
features of SCO Unix's and Ultrix's (BSD derived systems resp.) man.
A list of the features
- supports MANPATH & index files
- can handle SCO-style as well as BSD-style man-directories
(i.e., it is possible to share man-pages between BSD and
SCO systems)
- implements `whatis' & `apropos' on SysV.3 systems
- does not break when accessing files on an nfs mounted
BSD file system (like SCO's man...)
The price you pay for these features is that it is a bit slower than the
native versions of `man.'
I have tested the Bourne script file on both SCO and Ultrix systems.
To make the `apropos' and `whereis' commands more useful on SysV.3 systems,
I also wrote a simple perl-script generating a `whatis'-database out of
formatted manual-pages.
If anybody is interested, I could post it to some newsgroup
(comp.unix.sources?). The `source' it only about 7K.
--dave
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