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- From: horst@faui63.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Horst Luehrsen)
- Subject: Re: MANPATH?
- References: <MCONLON.92Jul20225430@holly.stat.ufl.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 08:00:59 GMT
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- mconlon@stat.ufl.edu (Mike Conlon) writes:
-
- >We are running Ultrix 4.2a and would like to have the functionality
- >provided by MANPATH on SUNS --- that is, sepcify an environment
- >variable MANPATH containing multiple paths:
-
- > setenv MANPATH /usr/man:/usr/local/man
-
- >and then have this environment variable used by man to find man pages
- >in one of several places.
- Under Ultrix 4.2 neither the "MANPATH" nor the "man -P" works. So what we
- did was creating a lot of symbolic links from /usr/man/man.. to
- /usr/local/man...
-
- Horst Luehrsen
- Horst Luehrsen <luehrsen@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> |
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