Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!sob From: sob@talcott.UUCP (Scott O Bradner) Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources Subject: Re: A fast man with search path Message-ID: <464@talcott.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Jul-85 16:05:40 EDT Article-I.D.: talcott.464 Posted: Sat Jul 6 16:05:40 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 05:33:13 EDT References: <1024@wucs.UUCP> Organization: Sociology Dept., Harvard Univ. Lines: 14 > I've seen references to a faster manual command (for 4.2 bsd or elsewhere) > which also allows for a search path environment specification. Does anybody > have or know of such a program? Could they send it to me? we have reworked man to use a dbm database, its much faster. the database also knows about internal names ( for example the "string(3)" entry has many internal names, strcat, strncat etc ) and "man strncat" will do a man of string. if there is enough requests i can post a diff ( copyrighted sources etc ). scott bradner harvard university sob@harvard.{uucp,arpa,csnet}