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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: 3.0-970124-SNAP: man page search order 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Feb 1997 23:44:01 +0100."
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Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 10:17:19 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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In message <Mutt.19970208234401.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch writes:
>As Robert N Watson wrote:
>
>> 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.

Well, somebody find out what it takes to fix the search order and 
that end of that story.

>I'm also fairly annoyed by this.  I never got it right why Tcl
>installs its man pages into the inofficial section `n' in the manual
>at all (is it really something to be considered `new' these days? :),
>but it's particularly annoying to have this section being searched in
>front of the standard sections.

Well maybe it should be called .t instead then ?

>(I wonder what people would say if we now also came up with another
>set of man pages for already used names, for everything inside of
>Perl. :-)

I think that would be a good idea.

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