man page organization
Marty
Leisner.Henr at xerox.com
Wed Jul 19 00:59:02 AEST 1989
I don't touch the /usr/man directories on my sun386i.
My sun386i didn't come with much space left on the /usr partition anyway.
I put locally installed stuff on /usr/local (where /usr/local is a
symbolic link to /files/local)
SunOS man supports the enviroment variable MANPATH which allows you to have
multiple man directories.
I just put local stuff in /usr/local/man/man[1-8].
I consider MANPATH to be a wonderful thing -- some versions of Unix don't
seem to have it (some editions of Sys V don't even have man!!). I large
releases with large numbers of manpages, don't even more the man pages,
just add where the man pages are to your MANPATH.
marty
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