[SunHELP] read man pages manually

Dale Ghent sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Mon Apr 16 01:51:15 CDT 2001


On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, faisal wrote:

| can i read man pages manually ?
| i mean i have installed something ... & it have a directory called man in
| which there are man pages files .... can i read them ?
| i am doing this cause when i try to fetch  that software man pages it gives
| me error that no manual entry found..
| but there are man pages there certianly ...

nroff -man manpage.file | more

If man does not see the man page files you're trying to read, then you
will need to add that man directory to your MANPATH environment variable.

'man man' will tell you about that.

/dale




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