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On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Steve Coile wrote:

> I've just installed a new software package that includes manual pages.
> When I try to read the pages with "man -M <path> <page>", I'm told the
> manual page doesn't exist.  When I use "truss man -M <path> <page>",
> truss generates *NO* output.  Is that normal?

have you tried 'man truss'. Should be no magic there. I'm not sure of what 
you expect 'truss man -M <path> <page>' to do for you, but I'm quite sure 
you are twisting things around here. If truss manual page has been 
correctly installed you should be able to read the man page with 'man 
truss'. 'truss -help' would probably give you the closest to your 'truss 
man -M <path> <page>'. But maybe I don't know what the heck I'm talking 
about :)

/sondre