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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: carney@gvc.dec.com
Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: 20b92 man bug
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>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Carney <carney@gvc.dec.com> writes:

Steve> In 20b92 with the goober patch, `M-x manual-entry man' gives me a buffer
Steve> with:

Steve>   File: /usr/man/man5/man.page.5
Steve>   /usr/ucb/man [-M | -P pathname] -f title ...
Steve>   /usr/ucb/man [-M | -P pathname] -k keyword ...

Perhaps /usr/ucb shouldn't be near the beginning of your PATH?

Maybe this code in man.el is worth investigating:


(defvar Manual-section-switch (if (eq system-type 'usg-unix-v) "-s" nil)
  "SysV needs this to work right.")

Martin

