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- From: alhy@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu (J. Scott Berg)
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- Subject: Re: backward MANPATH ?
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 17:19:45 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.191751.22333@eng.ufl.edu> <1992Sep10.010200.12873@eng.ufl.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep10.010200.12873@eng.ufl.edu>, ruck@zeta.ee.ufl.edu (John R Ruckstuhl Jr) writes:
- |> I wrote:
- |>
- |> > Sanity check, please --
- |> > Regarding "man" (SunOS 4.1.1) and "xman" utilities,
- |> >
- |> > These utilities output the manpage found !last! in the MANPATH,
- |>
- |>
- |> Not true. I'll try again. Apparently I've noticed some behavior
- |> related to the filename extensions, and my explanation was entirely
- |> incorrect.
- |>
- |> If MANPATH is /usr/man:/usr/local/man ,
- |>
- |> then
- |> /usr/man/man1/cmp.1 is output rather than /usr/local/man/man1/cmp.1
- |> /usr/man/man1/split.1 is output rather than /usr/local/man/man1/split.1
- |> /usr/man/man1/tail.1 is output rather than /usr/local/man/man1/tail.1
- |> but
- |> /usr/local/man/man1/cat.1 is output rather than /usr/man/man1/cat.1v
- |> /usr/local/man/man1/cut.1 is output rather than /usr/man/man1/cut.1v
- |> /usr/local/man/man1/sum.1 is output rather than /usr/man/man1/sum.1v
- |>
- |>
- Well, just to put my two cents worth in: I'm running an IBM RS6000,
- aix 3.1.7, X11R5. Just to confuse me, man will take the "leftmost"
- occurrence (i.e., the /usr/man entries) for the SAME extension (i.e.,
- .../man1/cmp.1 for both). However, xman will take the "rightmost"
- occurrence. xman's behavior will probably be standard across all
- platforms (for X11R5). Can anyone confirm this? Basically, this
- means I can't set MANPATH and get consistent behavior between xman and
- man.
-
- -Scott Berg
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