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Re: _man igores global matchers

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From: Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>
To: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: _man igores global matchers
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:15:24 -0400
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In-reply-to: <200106011149.NAA13921@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:49:36PM +0200
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:49:36PM +0200, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> I forgot to ask...
> 
> _man uses `$^manpath/(sman|man|cat)*', why both `man' and `cat'?  For
> people like me who have a pretty complete set of catman pages this makes
> every page be included twice.

There are some systems that have preformatted catpages with no
equivalent in nroff format.  I'd imagine that this is why.

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- Re: _man igores global matchers
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- Re: _man igores global matchers
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