Subject: Re: problem with 1.0-alpha man(1)
To: der Mouse <mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
From: Thorsten Lockert <tholo@SigmaSoft.COM>
List: current-users
Date: 07/16/1994 03:07:51
> I just updated my netbsd to the latest SPARC binary snapshot, and I
> find that man still has a problem it had before the update (and hence
> it's probably long-standing).  Specifically, if I ask for a man page
> that exists in more than one section (crontab, say, which exists in
> both (1) and (5)), then I always get the same one, even if I explicitly
> specify the other.  In this example, "man 5 crontab" still shows me
> crontab(1), rather than crontab(5).

Chances are you have MANPATH in your environment.  Try without it.

Thorsten
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