Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:10:12 -0800 From: Wayne Scott <wscott@pdxlx008.intel.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: man program is out of date Message-ID: <199603151810.KAA11953@pdxlx008.intel.com.intel.com>
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That man program currently included with FreeBSD is
version 1.1 of the man program written by John Eaton.
That is a very nice man program, but it is currently is at version 1.4
and has fixed many problems and added some nice features.
The most important one in my eyes is automaticly determining the
MANPATH from your path. ie:
if /foo/bar/bin is one your path, then /foo/bar/man
is automaticly searched if it exists.
The FreeBSD version will only look for /foo/bar/bin/man
which is not very useful.
The current version can be found in:
ftp.cs.umn.edu:/packages/Linux/system/Manual-pagers/man-1.4f.tar.gz
It compiles fine on FreeBSD.
-Wayne
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