Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:22:57 -0000 From: "Simon Gray" <simong@desktop-guardian.com> To: "andi payn" <andi_payn@speedymail.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reading non-installed man pages, etc. Message-ID: <01c401c3a84e$8a432ec0$1100a8c0@dtg17> References: <1068520779.3935.41.camel@verdammt.falcotronic.net>
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> I'd occassionally like to be able to read manpages from somewhere other > than the MANPATH. > Let me give you two concrete examples of things that I can do on linux, > that I don't know how to do on FreeBSD > > $ man /mnt/falco3/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.bz2 > $ man /home/andi/foo/doc/foo.1 I'm not sure how man handles bz2. But for the other manpath, i guess you could do: echo "OPTIONAL_MANPATH /home/andi/foo/doc" >> /etc/manpath.config && makewhatis Hope this helps, Simon
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