[OpenIndiana-discuss] man pages to solaris cmds

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 12/18/10 05:04 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> What is the MANPATH to the solaris cmds that there are also gnu
> versions of.

/usr/share/man

> /bin/ls  for example
> 
> If I call man /bin/ls
> 
> I get warnings about opening a binary file, and when the man page
> opens there is lots of guff in it like escape sequences.

Strange - works for me on S11 Express - not sure what OI could have
done to break it.   (It is a little known feature that man will take
the command path to find the matching man page - not sure when it was
added.)

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	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System