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From: Darren Wyn Rees <merlin@netlink.co.uk>
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Subject: accessing local man pages
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Perhaps this belongs on freebsd-newbies.

Using Linux, I can type 'man -l <manpage>' to pick up a local man page.

(By "local", I mean man page is in pwd).

How can I do that with FreeBSD man command ?

I've tried ... man -M <path to local man page> <man page>

But it doesn't work.

	Darren


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