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Subject: Re: Request for un-Linux `man man'.
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Karl M Hegbloom <karlheg@inetarena.com> writes:

>  Where do you put your {,t,g}roff manuals?  Is there a "catman"
>  directory?  Is that automatic, ie, part of `man'?  I only know Linux.

Please do not go restoring the dependency on the structure of the man
page directories.  man.el should only interact with the man program
and not anything underneath it.

;; Eviscerated 26-Jun-96 by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com>.
;; All that stuff about looking at $MANPATH and building up lists of 
;; directories was bullshit.  Now we just invoke "man" and format the
;; output, end of story.

