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Re: man : work in progress



> >   Manual pages for commands and data under /usr/local are stored in
> >   /usr/local/man.  Manual pages for X11R6 are stored in /usr/X11R6/man.
>                                   ~~~~~~~~~
> Sorry, I meant, what about programs that install themselves in
> /usr/X11R6/bin and have a manpage in /usr/X11R6/man?

It would seem that if the program is going to live in /usr/X11R6/bin,
then the manpage should live in /usr/X11R6/man.  There is no provision
in FHS 2.0 for a share directory under /usr/X11R6, probably because of
its inherantly machine-dependent nature.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
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