Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 20:27:16 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: "Potts, Ross" <rpotts@harris.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding man pages? Message-ID: <20010416202716.A27536@billygoat.slb.to> In-Reply-To: <95B669A7D872D41182A600508BDFFB8C01BECB41@mlbmx7.ess.harris.com>; from rpotts@harris.com on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 03:44:58PM -0400 References: <95B669A7D872D41182A600508BDFFB8C01BECB41@mlbmx7.ess.harris.com>
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> from the CL, how can I make available the manpages that AMANDA (the > backup program) makes available all the time? Edit /etc/manpath.config. This will make the man pages available for 'man whatever'. If you want the pages to figure into apropos/whatis searches, do # sh /etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis after you edit the config file, or wait till the end of the week... :) See manpath(1) for more information. > Where does nroff figure into this? nroff is the formatter that takes the man pages (which are written in a macro language which nroff understands) and formats them for viewing on your console. Do # gzip -dc /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz | nroff -man | less to see what I mean. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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