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Re: how many man page directories?

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From: Gisli Ottarsson
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:42
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In article <dbz2mxk@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) 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?



I think you will find that .../Unix/ManPages contains some man pages
that were not in the original distribution  (These would be documents
more suited to a /usr/local/man location)  I think you may find this
to be the reason for it not having been removed by the 3.0 installer.

				Gisli

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							Gisli Ottarsson
   Delenda est Carthago.         			University of Michigan
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