any man dir is usually populated with submandirs, for example, look at
your /usr/local/man, it doesn't have any manuals, just man1, man2, man3...
if your joe manual is joe.1, then make it ~/man/man1/joe.1
that should work.
Claudio Sanchez III wrote:
> This isn't really a Linux question, but close enough:
>
> I just installed joe on my ccwf account. Yeah, I've never learned to
> appreciate vi or emacs--whatever <G>. Good ol' joe works fine, but I can't
> read the man files. I set up a ~/man directory and edited the joe makefile
> to install it's man into ~/man. Now, when I try `man joe`, I get:
> No manual entry for joe.
>
> I did `manpath` and saw that my manpath includes my ~/man
> directory--although I don't remember doing anything to add that to my
> manpath after making the ~/man directory... wierd. So, I've got ~/man in my
> manpath, and a "joe.1" file is in my ~/man directory, so why can't I read
> the man file for joe???
> --
> Claudio Sanchez, III
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