[8327] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.3M: man(1)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Fri Oct 4 10:50:40 1991
From: mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 91 10:51:29 EDT
System name: podge
Type and version: KN01 7.3M (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: PMAX-MFB
What were you trying to do?
Read the man page for the program /usr/athena/bin/man, so I
could find out how to use the -M option correctly.
What's wrong:
The man page doesn't document the -M option, i.e., that a
command of the form
% /usr/athena/bin/man -M /afs/rel-eng/system/vax_bsd43/srvd/usr/man inetd
will produce useful output. Instead, it includes information
about two vendor versions of man, /usr/ucb/man and
/usr/bin/man, which occur later in the path set by the default
Athena dotfiles.
What should have happened:
There should be a man page that documents the operation of the
version of man that is accessed by users employing the default
value of $path, i.e., /usr/athena/bin/man.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
/afs/rel-eng/system/vax_bsd43/srvd/usr/man/man1/man.1
