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Re: usr/man vs usr/share/man?



On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:49:55AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> 
> For /usr/man (and /usr/info), the tools that read from those dirs have
> been modified to look in both /usr/man and /usr/share/man, and thus the
> transition is transparent to the users -- very few people habitually use
> 'nroff -man /usr/man/man1/ls.1.gz'

and even in that case, man -w <manpage> can be very handy :-)

fab
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