From: ahelm AT gmx DOT net Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:00:55 +0200 (MEST) To: Hans-Bernhard Broeker Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Man-pages in DJGPP packages X-Authenticated-Sender: #0003579562 AT gmx DOT net X-Authenticated-IP: [194.201.128.5] Message-ID: <20955.993553255@www32.gmx.net> X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.5 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com >Are you sure about this? I've used many a version of Unix, but IIRC, >none of them even had a 'cat1n' subdirectory, let alone installed >anything there. They all install everything starting with '1' in the >suffix into man1 / cat1, AFAICS. E.g. manpage "Test.3pm.gz" ends up in >/usr/man/man3, on Linux. Sorry to disappoint you, but the system you describe is only found in some Linux versions (and maybe some DEC-UX). Here a ls of /usr/man in Solaris v2.6: cat1 cat3b cat3r cat7 man.cf man3 man3r man5 man8 cat1b cat3c cat3s cat8 man1 man3b man3s man6 man9 cat1c cat3e cat3t cat9 man1b man3c man3t man7 man9e cat1f cat3g cat3x cat9e man1c man3e man3x man7d man9f cat1m cat3i cat4 cat9f man1f man3g man3xc man7fs man9s cat1s cat3k cat4b cat9s man1m man3k man3xn man7i manl cat2 cat3m cat5 catl man1s man3m man4 man7m mann cat3 cat3n cat6 catn man2 man3n man4b man7p windex The different directories are used to support searching for multiple entries. E.g. there is a printf entry in 3s and 3b A similar structure is found on HP-UX (uses compressed manpages in newer versions). I don't know if/how/where this system is actually specified but it is obviously used. Anyway. I don't mind having a .3p file in the man3 directory but there are all kind of weird combinations in DJGPP distributions e.g.: A groff-transformed man file containing a 5 designator having a .man extension and being stored in man/man1. So far I always do a manual clean-up (by looking into every single man file) after installing new DJGPP packages. Regards, Tony -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net