Wanted: Better man command

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From: Dudley Irish
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 12:14

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We are installing a bunch of DECstations and all is well except the
man command.  We have a number of Sun workstations and a large
/usr/local/man directory structure.  As far as I can tell from the man
pages there is no way to get Ultrix man to search both the normal man
directories and my local directories.  At this point I have an alias,
'lman' which using the -P option to specify the local man pages, but I
need a better solution.

We have looked around and can't find either a way to get Ultrix's man
command to do what we want or a better man command.  If have a
solution to either of these problems, please send me mail.  I will
post a summary.

--
Dudley Irish / dirish@math.utah.edu / Manager Computer Operations
Center for Scientific Computing, Dept of Mathematics, University of Utah

The views expressed in this message do not reflect the views of the
Dept of Mathematics, the University of Utah, or the State of Utah.

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