From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 22 15:19:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67DC937B401 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:19:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 46561 invoked by uid 100); 22 Feb 2001 23:19:06 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14997.40554.576732.239227@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:19:06 -0600 To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Man Pages In-Reply-To: <133018157@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Odhiambo Washington types: > > Is there a way to go into /usr/ports/some_group_of_apps/some_port and use > make to extract on the man pages??? No. Some ports don't even have any man pages. You can do "make extract" (or "make patch" to get the FreeBSD-specific patches applied), then look in the work subdirectory for whatever doc is available. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message