From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 15 10:14:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA16679 for current-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:14:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA16674 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:14:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from ormail.intel.com (ormail.intel.com [134.134.192.3]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id KAA24185 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:14:09 -0800 Received: from ichips.intel.com (ichips.intel.com [134.134.50.200]) by ormail.intel.com (8.7.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA07892 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:10:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from pdxlx008.intel.com.intel.com by ichips.intel.com (8.7.1/jIII); Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:10:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from loopback.jf.intel.com by pdxlx008.intel.com.intel.com (8.6.12/10.0i); Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:10:12 -0800 Message-Id: <199603151810.KAA11953@pdxlx008.intel.com.intel.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: man program is out of date Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:10:12 -0800 From: Wayne Scott Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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