Re: how many man page directories?

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From: Garance A. Drosehn
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:24

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gjditchf@plg.uwaterloo.ca (Glen Ditchfield) writes:
> 
> My NeXTstation is running release 3.0.  It has two man page directories
> under /NextLibrary/Documentation: ManPages, and Unix/ManPages.  They seem
> different: Unix/ManPages contains only some cat directories which contain
> some old ascii man pages.  /usr/man is a link to ManPages.
>    I assume that Unix/ManPages is just a left-over from an earlier
> release, and can be deleted, but I thought I'd check.  Does anything
> use it?

If you install 3.0 from scratch, you only end up with the "ManPages"  
directory, and no "Unix/ManPages" directory (that's where man pages were in  
release 2.x).

Nothing seems to care if Unix/ManPages does not exist.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA

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