how many man page directories?

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3 total messages Started by Glen Ditchfield Sun, 27 Dec 1992 22:02

#2018

Author: Glen Ditchfield
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 22:02

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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?

Re: how many man page directories?

#2020

Author: 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.

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

Re: how many man page directories?

#2024

Author: 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
							gisli@engin.umich.edu
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