Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!prandt!tweten@AMES-NAS.ARPA From: tweten@AMES-NAS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: VMS-HELP on UNIX ? Message-ID: <2394@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 14:59:56 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2394 Posted: Thu Oct 24 14:59:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:09:16 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 9 From: savage@ssc-vax.UUCP (Lowell Savage) I modified the man program to follow a $MANPATH environment variable (which looks just like the PATH variable) but I'm wondering if anyone else has done anything like this? Or has any better ideas??? System V.2 UTS on our Amdahls has Man, which makes use of an environment variable named $MAN, to accomplish exactly what you describe.