From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 2 12:10:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA00623 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 12:10:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA00616 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 12:10:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA07385; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 15:09:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 15:09:21 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@localhost To: "James D. Fowler" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: man pages In-Reply-To: <199801021730.JAA00982@james.digitalmechanix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, James D. Fowler wrote: > how do I install a single man page? If you take a look at /etc/manpath.config, you'll see the list of directories your system knows to search thru. Pick one. Underneath each will be at least one, and possibly 2 sets of subdirectories. One will have the names man1, man2, etc, and this is where troff (mdoc) formatted man pages go, in gzip compressed form. The other set (which you might not have) is the cat1, cat2, etc set, where preformatted (ready for display) man pages go. If you don't have the cat directories, your system can't cache formatted man pages for redisplay. This saves you some disk space, but costs extra formatting time for man pages you access a lot. /usr/share/man is the directory for the system man pages. I would not recommend adding locally generated man pages there, because when you finally upgrade your installation, you're going to be reinstalling that directory, and you'll have to separate out the system man pages from your locally installed ones, so that the locally installed ones don't get wiped out in the upgrade. > thanx > jimmy > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------