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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, rsc@swtch.com
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Subject: Re: [9fans] man! play nice.
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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:26:42 -0500
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russ, 

your solution doesn't work if you do "9 man -P man". page will still fail
because it "9 man" will run man with $PLAN9/bin as the first 
element of the path, thus passing on the same to page and then
finding $PLAN9/bin/file before the other one.

erik

Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> writes

| 
| > i'd rather man do the  work than type "man <whatever>"
| > decide that that's not really what i wanted and then type
| > "/usr/bin/man <whatever>".
| 
| you should put $PLAN9/bin at the end of your path and use 9.
| i find it quite reasonable to type "man foo" and get the
| unix one and then one i want it i type "9 man foo" to get
| the plan 9 one.
| 
| russ