Subject: Re: how to view pkg man pages?
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Jim Bernard <jbernard@mines.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/12/2003 11:52:39
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 08:20:19PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 06:16:01PM +0000, Chris Lloyd wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 08:09:25PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > > What is the proper way of viewing pkg man pages in case the names
> > > conflict with NetBSD man pages?
> > 
> > man -M /usr/pkg/man lpr
> 
> Wow, thanks.
> 
> How about creating a new manual section called 'p' or something (for
> pkgsrc)?  Then one could just type
> 
> man p lpr

  The distributed man.conf already contains an entry for "packages", so you
can say:

  man packages lpr

Is that good enough?