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
