Lawrence Lee wrote:
> Would it be an appropriate extension to also use this behavior
> if MANPATH is defined, but the requested man page is not found?
I think not.  If the user explicitly sets MANPATH, the man command
shouldn't second guess him.  (To do so, would probably be considered
an incompatible change anyway.)
> Will the transformation rules be hardcoded  in the man.c
> or will there be a system file which defines the transformation rules.
> IOW - if sbin or exe is not included in the default transformation rules,
> could a system administrator extend those rules?
Interesting idea.  However, I expect that the syntax for the rules may
be hard to get right.  I guess its up to Mike if he wants to pursue this.

- jek3



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