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In a previous message, INGEGNERIA DI SICUREZZA said:
> Question about Unix FreeBSD.
> 
> Is it possible to use 'man' command getting manual pages from CDROM or is necessary copy man pages on hard disk?
> 
> Regards.


Sure thing, just mount the live file system (2nd CD) and set your
MANPATH to it. Something like:
export MANPATH="/usr/share/man:/cdrom/usr/share/man"



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