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From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
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Quoting Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>:
> man -M . foo1.man should work (assuming FBSDs man command is POSIX
> compliant; I haven't tried it).

So try it then.  (Hint: it doesn't.  However, if you have a
subdirectory man1 in your current working directory, and foo.1
inside that directory, then man -M . foo works.  Again, try telling
a naive user that.)

> No need for GNU, and the emphasis over
> the last few years is less gnu in the base system, not more.

I have news for you: it's *already* GNU man, but an ancient version.

Rahul