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Authored by: geoffsaulnier on May 22, '02 08:21:33PM

The best use I find of this stuff is when installing an app, I want to look at its man page(s), but they are not in $MANPATH. I just use

groff -man manfilename | more

were manfilename is the name of the man file you want to examine.

Obviously, to complete the install, you want to add these pages into $MANPATH and rebuild the apropos databases (I do this so infrequently, though, that I keep forgetting where the command lives to do that!!!)



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