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|>Don't know if the procedure is unix-universal. We just set up our OSF/1
|>Ver 3.0 Unix system, and would like to copy man pages (e.g. pine.1
|>, pico.1  ...) into the local man directory so they can be used by the
|>man command.
|>Could someone tell me the steps to do it ?
|>

The OSF/1 man command understand the evironment variable
MANPATH.
Do the command:
set MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/local/man
or something else, depending on your shell, and the man command looks
also in the additional trees.

This may not be true for other UNIX-dialects.

Hope this helps,

V. Hejny

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$HOME/man/man1

(I use ~/bin/man/man1 myself), and anothermanpage.8 goes into:

$HOME/man/man8

and so on.  Note the correllation of the numeric extension of the
manpage file with the name of the man subdirectory.

If the man pages are already formatted, then put them into
corresponding subdirectories called $HOME/man/cat1 $HOME/man/cat2
etc.

Then run catman with something like the following command:

catman -w -M ~/man

Check the man pages for man, and for catman for the correct
syntax; it man vary from system to system.  The -w switch is to
stop the creation of the formatted ~/man/cat1/* files.

This will create a ~/man/whatis or ~/man/windex file (depending
on your system).

Then (for [t]csh, modify for sh shells) in ~/.login have the
following:

setenv MANPATH $HOME/man:$MANPATH

If you include your own manpath directory early in the $MANPATH
variable, then your manpages get read before any duplicates
elsewhere on the system.

Now you are set! :-)

Cheers
Tony
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Quote:>Don't know if the procedure is unix-universal. We just set up our OSF/1
>Ver 3.0 Unix system, and would like to copy man pages (e.g. pine.1
>, pico.1  ...) into the local man directory so they can be used by the
>man command.
>Could someone tell me the steps to do it ?

Additionally, you may want to run catman on /usr/local/man, to have a
whatis database created.  Read the catman(8) man page for details.

Dan
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