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From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 port man pages
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 13:00:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040519170052.GA11613@mero.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0405182050120.8001@pali.cps.cmich.edu>

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 08:54:23PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
> Just adding /usr/local/plan9/man to MANPATH only works for
> man page entries that are unique to plan9 but all others
> have matches in linux man pages or ones that start with a digit
> (9c etc.) man command treats it as a section #.
>
> So, what os the correct way to handle it?

There's a script called 9man (or man9 if you want history
expansion to work) that looks up plan 9 man pages.  It also
adds some troff magic to make the pages render better, at
least under FreeBSD.  I haven't ported over the stuff I
added to my version of the Plan 9 port yet, but it brings
in lookman and friends, too.  Probably not worth the effort.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-19 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-19  0:54 Ishwar Rattan
2004-05-19 16:50 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2004-05-19 17:03   ` Scott Schwartz
2004-05-19 17:00 ` William Josephson [this message]

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