Manual pages located in NON-STANDARD places in Ultrix

Rajesh Kumar Singh rsingh at elaine4.Stanford.EDU
Tue Jun 11 07:43:32 AEST 1991


My question is about MANPATH under ultrix (on two different
machines).  First the operatings system signatures are:

Ultrix V3.1D (Rev. 54) Worksystem V2.2 System #1:  Tue Sep 11 12:24:47 PDT 1990
and   Ultrix-32 V3.0 (Rev 64) System #2: Tue Oct 10 11:39:51 PDT 1989

The "man man" gives the following syntax:
		man -k keyword...
 	man -f page_title...
		man [-] [-s] [1...8] page_title...

How do I access man pages stored in non-standard places, such
as $HOME/man/man[1-8n]/*  or ~friend/man/man[1-8n]/*  or
/afs/... ?  From the above syntax it is clear that ultrix man
displayer doesn't read the MANPATH environment variable, as
with SunOS, for example?

Locally at Stanford I asked this question three times on 
air.unix and twice sent mails to u-ask at air(ASK ULTRIX) but 
no satisfactory answers in over three weeks.

Only one consultant pointed out a (seemingly undocumented) swith
-P <dir>.  The trouble is it doesn't take an argument like
-P <dir1>:<dir2>:... like most other path specifications.

Help!! --raj (rsingh at leland.stanford.edu)
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Rajesh Kumar Singh               E-mail: rsingh at leland.stanford.edu
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                                         -- Adventures of Asterix.



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