From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 16 20:27:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3396C106564A for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:27:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dalescott@shaw.ca) Received: from idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca [64.59.134.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F042F8FC16 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lb7f8hsrpno-svcs.dcs.int.inet (HELO pd6mr1no-ssvc.prod.shaw.ca) ([10.0.144.222]) by pd6mo1no-svcs.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 16 Jan 2012 13:27:31 -0700 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.1 cv=WpKsuUXFHo8UtG/DzFbgZegZM4FLHkdrgQPE14L/l6M= c=1 sm=1 a=mZs_BshNyIoA:10 a=BLceEmwcHowA:10 a=5mcg790sAAAA:8 a=poVpDSe0aWoCDjd666YA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Received: from unknown (HELO ms013no.no.cg.dcs.int.inet) ([10.0.144.222]) by pd6mr1no-svcs.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 16 Jan 2012 13:27:31 -0700 Received: from shaw.ca ([unknown] [10.0.145.159]) by l-daemon (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.3-11.01 64bit (built Sep 1 2009)) with ESMTP id <0LXW00N7ORHV4T50@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:27:31 -0700 (MST) Received: from [10.0.144.234] (Forwarded-For: [10.0.146.234]) by vms024.prod.shaw.ca (mshttpd); Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:27:31 -0700 From: Dale Scott To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:27:31 -0700 X-Mailer: Sun Java(tm) System Messenger Express 7.3-11.01 64bit (built Sep 1 2009) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-language: en X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: help accessing mdbtools man pages in /usr/local/share/man X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:27:32 -0000 I installed mdbtools from source on github and it put its man pages in "/usr/local/share/man/man1", where the default man command doesn't find them (although "man -M /usr/local/share/man mdb-export" works). >From "man hier", it looks like the man pages should have been put into "/usr/local/man". Is that correct? Also, the pages aren't in gz format (just "mdb-export.1"). Is there a typical workaround? (I expect this is not uncommon for an app coming from the Linux world?). Thanks in advance, Dale P.S. mdbtools works well for accessing data in a MS Jet/Access MDB file. There's an old version in the ports tree, but no maintainer (perhaps one day I may have learned enough to update the port myself, but alas not yet). ----- Transparency with Trust http://www.dalescott.net