From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] man! play nice.
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:49:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a05091713497dd43f85@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050917162800.6D27E1783D7@dexter-peak.quanstro.net>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-17 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-17 2:42 erik quanstrom
2005-09-17 15:04 ` Russ Cox
2005-09-17 19:37 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] ` <20050917162800.6D27E1783D7@dexter-peak.quanstro.net>
2005-09-17 20:49 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-09-17 23:26 ` erik quanstrom
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