Question about /usr/ucb/man -P option
George Robbins
grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Mon Jul 2 16:55:02 AEST 1990
In article <268BC4A7.8934 at orion.oac.uci.edu> iglesias at orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
>
> I've discovered that /usr/ucb/man (Ultrix 3.1) has a (undocumented) -P
> option to set the path to look for man pages. Is there a way to tell
> it more than one path to look at? I have a need to specify 2
> different paths (/usr/man and one other) for man pages, and I can't
> seem to find the right incantation to get it to take more than one
> path.
Have you considered using symlinks to make your man directory show up as
/usr/man/manx? This works for us, although it seems to require that the
suffixes on the man entries match the subdirectory to some extent...
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike Iglesias
> University of California, Irvine
> Internet: iglesias at orion.oac.uci.edu
> BITNET: iglesias at uci
> uucp: ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias
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