On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:22:24PM +0200, L?VAI D?niel wrote:
| Hi!
| 
| I think there is a way for this but I can not find it in man's man :)
| 
| Like in Linux there is a `-l' option to man(1) which opens a Local file, 
| like man -l /usr/local/man/man1/somemanpage.1. I'm in trouble opening 
| net-snmp package's snmpd(8) or snmpd.conf(5) man page, because it 
| conflicts with the base's snmpd's man pages. Now I'm reading it with 
| less, but it is less convenient :)
| 
| Thanks for the help!

Next to the useful suggestions you've received so far, you can try

        groff -man -Tascii /path/to/manpage.X | less

to render the specific page. 

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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