Using CD-ROM manual pages on SunCD Demo Disc-1.0 (SUMM

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

I wanted to use the CD-ROM manual pages on SunCD Demo Disc-1.0, and set
MANPATH to /cdrom/manual_pages.  However, man(1) would always reformat
manual pages even though the cat? directories contained the preformatted
versions.  As suggested by tessi!joey at nosun.West.Sun.COM (Joe Pruett) and
acheng at ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng), the modification times on the files
in cat?/* are BEFORE those of the man?/* files, i.e. man is forced to do a
reformat.  So Sun blew it on this (minor) point !  Workaround (thanks,
Joe): The easiest fix is to create a new directory on your real disk, and
create links for all the cat directories, but no the man directories, then
set MANPATH to point to the new directory.

By the way, it would have been SO nice, if the SunOS 4.1 CD-ROM had the
unpacked manual pages for easy access, in addition to the tar-files needed
for installation !

With best regards,

Ole H. Nielsen
Laboratory of Applied Physics, Building 307
Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
E-mail: OHNielsen at ltf.dth.dk
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