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- From: hurtta@cs.Helsinki.FI (Kari E. Hurtta)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: man and xman
- Message-ID: <HURTTA.92Sep6205332@plootu.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 18:53:32 GMT
- References: <1992Sep6.131141.23130@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Lines: 19
- In-Reply-To: int177c@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au's message of 6 Sep 92 13: 11:41 GMT
-
- In article <1992Sep6.131141.23130@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> int177c@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Jae Won) wrote:
- > I have man pages working and xman also working nice. But I found that
- > if unless I have man pages in the man1...man9 directories, xman won't even
- > know it's there. With mcc interim, the man pages are in the cat1...cat9
- > directories so I tried linking things into man directories but then normal
- > man refuses to work...can someone help me set the thing up? Thanks very much
- > in advance.
-
- No. Files in cat1...cat9 are generated from pages is man1...man9.
- man1...man9 are troff versions of man pages. If in cat1...cat9
- are up of date version of page, man uses that, otherwise man
- formattes manual page from man1...man9.
-
- - K E H
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