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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 07:08:42 +0000
From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>,
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Subject: Re: Changing 'man' to check alternate destination for 'cat' pages
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:22:55AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> If you're going to overhaul man, there's probably quite a bit you
> could do beyond the paths. =20

Making

    % man _path_/foo.1

work (e.g., "man ./foo.1") would probably be beneficial.  I've lost
count of the number of times I've had to explain how to use "nroff -man
=2E.." (or -mdoc) to people.

N
--=20
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