Subject: Re: a question about man
To: Max Bell <mbell@europa.com>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@BALVENIE.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/19/1995 11:58:30 
> I also use 1.0 and have noticed that "man" ignores section specifiers.  If I
> ask for "man 2 write", I always get write(1) instead.  Currently, I just cd
> into the right directory and nroff the desired page myself, but . . .

only if you have MANPATH set.

This has been fixed in the -current sources since April 20.


chris