man

[Chris Torek]

In article <IWM.89Apr20121947 at ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk> iwm at doc.ic.ac.uk
(Ian Moor) writes:
>... This is a BSD system. ...
>I would like to be able to do
>   setenv MANPATH /usr/man:/usr/local/man:~/man

Bingo!

Reasonably current BSD releases search $MANPATH (or the path given
via the -M or -P options).  You cannot use `~' here, however; replace
~/man with $HOME/man.

>Similarly, I would like to move /tmp around when the C compiler fills it up,
>in the same way I can redefine SYS$SCRATCH on need.

`setenv TMPDIR /usr/tmp'---unfortunately, cc ignores $TMPDIR (fixed
in 4.4?).
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