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To: Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: 3.0-970124-SNAP: man page search order 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Feb 1997 14:50:49 EST."
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Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 17:47:59 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 1. Installing packages from ftp2.freebsd.org sometimes fails for
> specific packages -- xemacs in this case.  This may just be a result of
> this being a SNAP.  Also, the sysinstall.debug output is weird (lots of
> "failure"'s?)

I think that pkg_add still has a problem with the xemacs package;
something for me to fix.  The other packages should be happy.

> 2. The real thing is this.  The man page search order finds all of the c
> programming calls after the TCL ones, so "man bind" returns TCL's bind,
> not the syscall bind.  This is inconvenient if one is a C programmer not
> a TCL programmer.  I assume I can fix this with /etc/manpath.config, but
> this doesn't seem like the right default setting?

Yes, I *hate* that too!  I shall look into whatever needs to be done
to fix this one.

						Jordan