From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 5:22:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alligator.wananchi.com (alligator.wananchi.com [62.8.64.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1317937B407 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 05:22:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: from root by alligator.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 159n9H-000131-00; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:19:55 +0300 Received: from [209.198.248.2] (helo=siafu.iconnect.co.ke) by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14W52Z-000G3V-00 for wash@poeza.iconnect.co.ke; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 02:20:51 +0300 Received: from [212.22.161.3] (helo=ns2.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14W4zK-0005bw-00 for wash@iconnect.co.ke; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 02:17:30 +0300 Received: from amavis by ns2.iconnect.co.ke with scanned-ok (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14W515-000A30-00 for wash@iconnect.co.ke; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 02:19:19 +0300 Received: from okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com ([65.26.235.186] helo=guru.mired.org) by ns2.iconnect.co.ke with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14W511-0009xh-00 for wash@iconnect.co.ke; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 02:19:16 +0300 Received: (qmail 46561 invoked by uid 100); 22 Feb 2001 23:19:06 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14997.40554.576732.239227@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:19:06 -0600 To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <133018157@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Subject: Re: Man Pages Status: RO Lines: 16 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Odhiambo Washington types: > > Is there a way to go into /usr/ports/some_group_of_apps/some_port and use > make to extract on the man pages??? No. Some ports don't even have any man pages. You can do "make extract" (or "make patch" to get the FreeBSD-specific patches applied), then look in the work subdirectory for whatever doc is available. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message