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From: jch@nr-atp.cit.cornell.edu (Jeffrey C Honig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Where's my man?! (BSDI 2.0)
Date: 07 Nov 1995 17:20:45 GMT
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In-reply-to: stehman@southwind.net's message of 7 Nov 1995 16:10:26 GMT

In article <47o0dj$3ti@opal.southwind.net> stehman@southwind.net (Jeff Stehman) writes:

BSDi's man command in configured in /etc/man.conf.  If you set MANPATH
you override that configuration.  It's best not to set MANPATH at all.

Also note that to look at different sections of the manual with 2.0
you need to use the -M option.  For example: `man -M mh inc` instead
of `man mh inc`.

Jeff