From: bqt@softjar.se (Johnny Billquist)
Subject: [TUHS] v6: where is "man"?
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:32:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC024E7.6090705@softjar.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.64.1010201504150.25174@malasada.lava.net>
On 10/21/10 03:06, Tim Newsham wrote:
>> What "man" binary? You use cat... You have the man-pages, you have a
>> program (or several) to type files... Why would you need yet another
>> program to type files?
>
> "man man" does more than "cat /usr/doc/man/man1/man.1".
> (try it!)
Yes, it does a "$(PAGER) /usr/doc/man/cat1/man.0" :-)
> It locates pages by man page section and it formats the
> data using nroff. See the "man" script I attached in an
> earlier email for details.
Depends on lots of factors and versions.
Maybe I should have added a smiley. My point was that originally you
didn't have a man program. You had man-pages, and you looked at them any
way you preferred. And that is what you observed, but didn't seem to
grasp, when you looked at V6 (hence the question about where the
man-program is).
Short answer then: there is none.
Johnny
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2010-10-20 12:24 ` Johnny Billquist
2010-10-21 1:06 ` Tim Newsham
2010-10-21 11:32 ` Johnny Billquist [this message]
2010-10-21 17:32 ` Tim Newsham
2010-10-20 1:16 Tim Newsham
2010-10-20 5:25 ` Warren Toomey
2010-10-20 5:44 ` Jason Stevens
2010-10-20 6:18 ` Tim Newsham
2010-10-20 15:25 ` Warner Losh
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