>[...]
>> That is great for components that ship as part of
>> OpenSolaris, but
>> third parties haven't really bought into the
>> share/man idea.  I was
>> initially going down the route that OpenSolaris has
>> symbolic links
>> pointing man to share/man.  Perhaps the thing to do
>> is use share/man
>> if it exists, else man.
>
>That's pretty much what I did for my own version of this;
>all the pathnames of commands that I knew had man pages in
>/usr/[share]/man ( /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/ucb) were
>mapped to /usr/share/man; all others used a derived name
>(with share/man tried first, then just man).  May take a bit more
>tweaking to get it as good as possible, but it pretty much works.


Of course, depending on whether /usr/ucb is in your $PATH first, you
also need to juggle with some of the MANEXT stuff (1b before 1, and such)


Not that /usr/ucb in $PATH is something you should do.  (Hm, let's
merge the two ps'es  and the whole /usr/ucb thing becomes mostly moot
anyway.

Casper

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