[illumos-Developer] Man page section reorganization

Mike Gerdts mgerdts at gmail.com
Mon Jun 27 19:37:06 PDT 2011


On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Gary Mills <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
> Notice how we had to split off some of the command sections so that
> ordinary users would not be confused by functions and files with the
> same names at the commands they really wanted.  This is too
> complicated.  Is there a better way?

Do not set MANPATH and let man(1) do the work for you, based on the
contents of PATH.

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2008-January/003524.html

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Mike Gerdts
http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/



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